User Account Setup

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One of the areas I am completely new to is Administration. On one of my
computers (XP Pro) I am the 'Administrator' with no other name. (Yes, the I
do realize the security hazard of running in Administrator only mode.) On my
new computer(XP Home) I made the mistake of entering my name on setup. The
listing in the User Accounts show both Administrator & Janis (with
Adminstrative rights). But, for me, it messes up the simplicity of the the
Document & Settings directory as I want it for now until I have the time to
get up to speed. (I will be picking up the Win/InsideOut next week.)
'Stupidly, I assumed' that Home Edition was (unlike XP Pro) a non-workgroup
environment for the inexperienced lay user without too many parameters to
adjust.

This being said, is there any easy &, above-all, safe way of deleting my
name under the User Account so that just 'Administrator' shows in the User
Accounts? I vaguely recall the 1st time I made this mistake, support took me
into Safe Mode to undo this, and just leaving the Administrator dialogue box
blank when re-setup. Most importantly, If I undo this error, will I lose any
of my personalized directory setups (i.e. document links/start menu
setup/etc).

Thank you very much for your time... & patience,
Janis
 
Summerblue said:
One of the areas I am completely new to is Administration. On one
of my computers (XP Pro) I am the 'Administrator' with no other name.
(Yes, the I do realize the security hazard of running in
Administrator only mode.) On my new computer(XP Home) I made the
mistake of entering my name on setup. The listing in the User
Accounts show both Administrator & Janis (with Adminstrative rights).
But, for me, it messes up the simplicity of the the Document &
Settings directory
Click to expand...

Eh? You never *see* what's in there unless you deliberately go there in
Windows Explorer!
And you should *really* *really* think twice about deleting your User
account. If your user account goes belly-up, (and it *does* happen) then the
*ONLY* way into your machine is through the Administrator account. If you
only have the Administrator account in existence, and THAT goes belly-up,
you are stuck with a repair install of XP at the least, and if your XP was
pre-installed, then it's hightly possible that you only have a recovery CD,
and that would mean losing ALL your documents, emails etc etc, purely
because you can't access the machine.
think about it.
 
didn't understand very well. do you want to delete Janis? when you delete
some, user it will prompt you to save her or his documents. i don't know
about saving settings, probably not.
 
Siphiuel said:
didn't understand very well. do you want to delete Janis? when you
delete some, user it will prompt you to save her or his documents. i
don't know about saving settings, probably not.
Click to expand...

Please quote the post you are replying to - most of us do NOT use the web
interface to access these groups.
Thankyou.
 
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