RE: More User Account Fun

  • From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:54:57 -0400

This is not at all necessary; if you're an admin, you can delete it.





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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mullins, Chris
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:24 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: More User Account Fun
> 
> If the account you want to delete has admin priviledges then 
> I would not
> think that an account with equal priviledges could delete/ amend that
> account.  Could you log onto the account you want to delete, 
> amend it to
> have user privilidges only, then log bak in as admin and delete it?
> 
> Cheers
> Chris    
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Ray Campbell
> Sent: 20 March 2008 19:54
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: More User Account Fun
> 
> Hello all:
> 
> I am working with a client that has a situation where someone messed
> with his computer and put several user accounts in place.  
> He's running
> JAWS 8.0 on a Windows XP machine.  There are six accounts 
> outside of the
> Administrator logon.
> 
> We deleted five of these accounts which were set up as 
> limited accounts
> without any problems.  However, we cannot get rid of the last account
> which is an account with administrative privleges.  I had him 
> log in as
> "administrator" and then go into the control panel.  We found the
> account we want to get rid of, however, when I have him press enter on
> it, then tab and down arrow through the options, there is no option to
> delete the account like there was with the limited accounts.  
> Again, he
> is logged in as administrator; I know that you cannot delete 
> the account
> of someone logged on.  The account he wants to delete happens to have
> administrative privileges.
> 
> This would not normally be a problem except my client's stuff is under
> the administrator login.  He had no other accounts on the computer and
> the computer would automatically start up and go into 
> windows.  He wants
> it to do that again and he wants all of these accounts deleted.
> 
> If anyone can help, please let me know.  I've done some searching both
> on google and in Microsoft's knowledge base and don't have 
> any answers.
> 
> 
> 
> Ray Campbell, Help Desk Technician
> Adaptive Technology Center
> Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
> 1850 W. Roosevelt Road
> Chicago, IL  60608
> 312-997-3651 (Voice/Relay) or
> 888-825-0080 (voice/Relay)
> ray.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> AIM Screen Name: tclhelp
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