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windows 7 built in administrator account

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hclarkjr

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i am thinking about enabling it and running my computer from it and deleting the account created during setup therefore eliminating special permissions and right click to run as administrator and some other annoyances. what are the pros and cons of doing this?
 
AFAIK the Admin account can not be made user account in Win7.

Make you main account part of the Admin Group.

As far as Network if you are the sole user you can enable the Guest account and uncheck the need for password to use the Shares.

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Actually, I always delete the account that I am forced to create during Windows setup.. and I actually name this account "Delete".

As soon as Windows boots up for the first time, the first thing I do is enable the builtin admin account and delete the account named "Delete".
 
A con is that you won't have any account to fall back to if your default Administrator account gets hosed.
 
MrEgo said:
Actually, I always delete the account that I am forced to create during Windows setup.. and I actually name this account "Delete".

As soon as Windows boots up for the first time, the first thing I do is enable the builtin admin account and delete the account named "Delete".
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The first account you make in Windows 7 is already a member of the Administrators group though.

AFAIK, using "Administrator" or the first account will yield no differences, because by default, not even "Administrator" will have administrator permissions unless elevated. You always need to elevate, unless UAC is off, in which case it's automatic. I could be wrong though.
 
looks like this will be my weekend project 🙂 if it gets hosed it is simple for me to reformat and install again.
 
Continuity28 said:
The first account you make in Windows 7 is already a member of the Administrators group though.
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I realize that, but it's just a personal preference of mine to only have 1 local administrator account on my PC.

The chance of a corrupted profile is a chance that I'm willing to take. I've never personally had it happen to me, but I have seen it happen at work... mostly to the type of user that has every single toolbar imaginable installed on the PC.
 
just finished moving everything and deleted my account that i created on install and rebooted. it is gone and now am running with the default administrator account
 
hclarkjr said:
just finished moving everything and deleted my account that i created on install and rebooted. it is gone and now am running with the default administrator account
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What is the point of this? The "Administrator" account by default doesn't give you any more privileges than a user account in the Administrators group would. If you set a strong password on your accounts it doesn't matter how many there are, it's the whole point of a multi-user system. If you have Linux, do you log in as root?
 
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