How to deleta administrator account?

I have 2 administrator accounts on my computer, the one that comes preinstalled when you get a new computer and one I accidentally created myself. Is there any way to delete the default account? Having 2 bothers me for some reason

 

Start menu>Click user icon>Manage another account>Click the default>Delete the account

 

You cannot delete the hidden administrator account like this. This hidden account comes into play when you log on in safe mode.

 

*Reads first post again* Oh, i see. I thought he was talking about deleting the account he made accidentally. At least i told him what to do about that. I've been in safe mode a couple of times and i've never seen the hidden Admin account though. Do you know how to get rid of it?

 

Is this Vista?

Vista comes with 2 administrator accounts. There's one called "Administrator", which is disabled by default, and then there's the main account you set up with your username, which is an admin account by default.

If you enabled the default "Administrator" account, I suggest just disabling it again.

 

You cannot do that swarmer. You can't even see that default admin account anywhere.

That's why you can't name your user name as " administrator" in vista. Anyone here has more thoughts about this?

 

I looked around on the internet and I've come to the conclusion that there's no way to delete the default admin account on XP. Oh well, thanks for the suggestions though!

 

That sounds right... you should be able to delete the one you accidentally created yourself, though.

 

XP? I thought you were talking about vista.

 

You can't on XP either I believe.

 

My undertanding of the "hidden" admin account is so that if all else fails you can log in as that user, preferably in safe mode. Without that user you have no safe mode afaik

 

You can't log in into that account because you don't know it's password.

 

Eh? There isn't a password, windows just boots up in safe mode as the admin account, at least on my copy of vista and xp anyway.

You can set a password for it though, and in vista and xp pro you can enable it as a seperate user you can log into normally rather than just in safe mode.

 

This thread might be of some interest to you: User Account Creation in New/Reinstalled Vista Computer!

 

This doesn't solve the OP's problem.

 

Meh I ended up reformatting my computer, since the problem I had occurred after a fresh reformat so I didn't really lose anything...thanks though!