How to delete administrator account in windows xp

Originally posted by DaveSylvia Try it without typing a password. Now,I've just newly installed the XP and used the Repair mode Any way this bug still bother me all the time as a nightmare for Microsoft Originally posted by ToRN Are passwords extractable as they were in win9x?

So,Noone knows,how to solve the problem I found? So sad for me Its not a great idea, as it toasts your forest! It can't be done via a GUI you will be pleased to know!

There are a number of ways to access the Admin account involving resetting the password. Some are free , if you have a little patience and some dos experience. Disabled Admin Recovery Soultion I recently had the same problem, where I accidentally disabled my admin account. I had to install a patch to run Nero giving it access to the burners, and to cut a long story short I ended up with my admin account disabled and no way of logging back into my machine.

Since the last few posts did not resolve this problem, and I am sure there are going to be others who will find themselves in the same predicament, I decided to share my experience and solution. There are numerous hacks that can be used, and I would advise people against them.

Instead, stick with XP and work through the problem. To restate the problem, if the admin account has been disabled to the best of my knowledge there is no way to delete it completely! Please contact your systems administrator. Instead, re-start your machine and keep hitting F8 and enter safe mode with command prompt.

This should bring up a message that allows you to enter Windows recovery function, and it will also open the control panel. On the left side bar you can select Local Policies and then Security Options and Enable the Administrator Account the same way you may have disabled it.

Of course another possibility and perhaps simpler option is to revert back to an earlier setting using the recovery utility. I actually enabled my admin account, so I am not sure if recovery will fix the problem. I think it should. Thank you for sharing that with us! It's always nice to get a solution for such a problem, as I'm sure we'll have others who'll encounter it in the future.

Great job! Also I noticed that "Administrator" was the only profil allowing to continue the process. An another profil - desabled admisnitrator as well - was not accepted. Hi, I'm facing a similar problem. When I start up my PC it goes until the login screen but I don't have any accounts to choose from?! So the first thing that got to mind was that I deleted somehow all the accounts.

But reading some of the threads here I think they could also be disabled. Can anyone help me?!?!? Before starting to delete administrator account, please make sure whether you might want to back up their files and settings. Copy the folders to external hard disk or other partitions of hard drive and you would back up.

This is especially important for Windows 8 and 10, which will not prompt you to keep files while you delete the account. But Windows 7 will if you delete the account in Control Panel. Now we will introduce another common way "command line" for you to delete administrator account on all Windows 7, 8, 10 PC.

So it is better to back up administrator account settings and data before account deletion. Windows 7: Click Start and search cmd. Click Yes to run as administrator. Then the administrator account you typed will be deleted from your Windows PC.

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