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I have trouble removing the administrator account from my notebook. It was created when I wanted to access some read-only files and I wrote "net user administrator active" in cmd. (didnt work out tho) I tried removing it but there is not an option to do so. The delete account button is not available in user settings and I can not remove it from the settings menu. It seems that its not a real account but when I turn the notebook on I have the option to sign into that account. Any ideas? thx

Kr3Ep
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    It is not possible to delete this account. You can only disable it. My answer [here](https://superuser.com/questions/1024203/how-to-get-rights-of-admin-after-i-disabled-all-admin-accounts-in-my-computer/1024221#1024221) explains how you enable it. Step 10 in that answer explains that if you change the `11` to `10` you enable the account. In this case you would do the same procedure but change the `10` to `11` and that would disable the account. Since the procedure is identical except for that step I refuse to duplicate my answer and instead will flag it as a duplicate. – Ramhound Sep 21 '17 at 16:44
  • The process described in the existing answer to, [Disable Administrator account on Windows 7 Starter Edition](https://superuser.com/questions/543364/disable-administrator-account-on-windows-7-starter-edition), is identical on Windows 10. – Ramhound Sep 21 '17 at 16:46
  • The answer to, [How do I disable administrator prompt in Windows 8?](https://superuser.com/questions/464758/how-do-i-disable-administrator-prompt-in-windows-8), also applies to Windows 10 – Ramhound Sep 21 '17 at 16:48

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Click start button->type in 'run' without quotes, then type in: lusrmgr.msc this open a nice snap-in. Now go to the "Users" folder on the left hand-side and all the local users will show-up. From there, you may opt out to disable the account

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