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Old 08-07-2004, 03:35 AM   #1
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Change user name from "Administrator"

Right now I am logged on to my Windows XP Pro computer as "Administrator." For security reasons, is this okay?

How can I change this name?
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Old 08-07-2004, 05:15 AM   #2
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Cool

I may be wrong but I don't think you can change the administrator name. You can create another user with whatever rights you want to use (on my PC I have myself as a user with administrative rights), but I believe you have to leave the administrator there.

Here is a discussion on running with administrator rights.
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...strator+rights
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