User Accounts

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I was checking user accounts on my computer and find that I have six of them.   1) Administrator 2) Administrator.D(a six digit number follows) 3) All Users 4) Default User 5) Owner 6) 'my first name'   My question is are all these necessary? Why are there two administrator accounts?   ty Message Edited by delta7000 on 10-27-2004 08:25 PM

Mary G · Answer

I don't think you are looking in the right place. Go to Control Panel, User Accounts for the actual list of accounts. It sounds like you are looking at the list of folders in Explorer, not actual user accts.

delta7000 · Answer

Thanks for the reply. Yes I was. I'm still interested as to why there are two sets of administrator folders? ty

pijai · Answer

delta7000 wrote: I was checking user accounts on my computer and find that I have six of them. 1) Administrator 2) Administrator.D(a six digit number follows) 3) All Users 4) Default User 5) Owner 6) 'my first name' My question is are all these necessary? Why are there two administrator accounts? ty delta_7000 . . .i  had  posted  identical  issue  regardin'  your  topic  about  two  weeks  ago . . . still  have  not  come  up  with  resolution  in  the  matter.if  you  wish  to  view  my  post  and  member  follow-ups . . . the  link  is :click  here   mary_g . . . just  out  of  curiosity . . . do  you  also  have  multiple  administrator  directories  within  windows_explorer ?

delta7000 · Answer

I'll tell you another strange issue which I have been aware of since installing SP2. It may have been present before but I never noticed it. I'm the only one that has ever used this 8250. When I go into control panel, clicking on user accounts generates 'failure audit' under security in the event viewer. I am not restricted in any way and can do anything an administrator can do. I would never have known this if I had not checked the event viewer. I posted about this before but no one had a real answer. By the way there are just two accounts listed, ' myname' as computer administrator and a guest account which is not active. ty

pijai · Answer

delta7000 wrote: I'll tell you another strange issue which I have been aware of since installing SP2. It may have been present before but I never noticed it. I'm the only one that has ever used this 8250. When I go into control panel, clicking on user accounts generates 'failure audit' under security in the event viewer. I am not restricted in any way and can do anything an administrator can do. I would never have known this if I had not checked the event viewer. I posted about this before but no one had a real answer. By the way there are just two accounts listed, ' myname' as computer administrator and a guest account which is not active.  ty  failure_audit  within  event_viewer . . . i  routinely  get  slapped  with  that . . . usually  once  a  day . . . but . . . the  connection  goes  through  the  next  time  around.   although  this  is  somethin'  to  recognize . . . i  consider  it  as  a  simple  internal  glitch . . . since  the  error  message  doesn't  solicit  any  suspicions.

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