Admin Identity on Xp

[pointertovoid]

Hello Xp fans!

I've just reinstalled an Xp, for my first time with several user identities, in order to navigate as a user rather than an admin.

Having read (...and believed) that one can add and suppress identities at will on Xp, provided one keeps one or more admin session, I had imagined that I had to create one identity I called, say, "Zeus" and one "Ulysses". But now I have three identities: Administrator, Zeus and Ulysses. Not what I wanted.

Questions:
- Can Administrator and Zeus do the same operations?
- Why do I access Administrator only through F8? It's still a special identity, then!
- Can I suppress Administrator or Zeus?

Thanks!

[jaclaz]

In XP, by default the user with the name "Administrator" is "hidden" and can only be accessed in safe mode/F8, sure it is a "special identity it is the Administrator.

 

What is the problem?

I.e. what would you have expected or what you wish to have?

 

Do you want to unhide the user " Administrator" to be able to log in as it?

Is that Home or Pro?

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/admins.htm

 

 

jaclaz

[pointertovoid]

Well then, I'm pleased with a special identity always called "Administrator". It's the best way to do. I had just gotten fooled by something I read.

 

I firmly believe to have Xp Pro because it's written on the install Cd and the start menu displays it. I'll change my mind in case the Ctrl-Alt-Suppr fails.

 

Can I suppress the Zeus identity? I definitely have no documents there. I don't need two admin sessions, it's clumsy and more risky.

[jaclaz]

I firmly believe to have Xp Pro because it's written on the install Cd and the start menu displays it. I'll change my mind in case the Ctrl-Alt-Suppr fails.

 

Good, as this would make the other thread hint/workaround superfluous, in Pro you just need to turn "Simple File Sharing" to off:

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173873-file-ownership-and-protection-on-xp/

See:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/307874

 

Can I suppress the Zeus identity? I definitely have no documents there. I don't need two admin sessions, it's clumsy and more risky.

Sure you can, as long as you have one (and the "default", hidden or not "Administrator" would do) user account with Admin privileges/powers.

jaclaz

Edited May 15, 2015 by jaclaz