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I'm using windows 10 home version. I somehow accidentally enabled the administrator account when trying to fix another account and couldn't seem to remove it. It keeps showing up in the login screen, which is quite annoying, and I wasn't able to remove it using the command net user administrator /active:no. Also, I noticed that the account showed up in the netplwiz window (it wasn't there before), but I couldn't delete it from there either.

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I just found out that, interestingly, two administrator accounts started showing up in the login screen. One would require only the password, and the other one would require both the username and the password to login. Any ideas why this is happening?

I was just thinking, but...could this possibly suggest that I had another user account actually named "Administrator"? (the netplwiz window is only showing one administrator account)

The two accounts showed up like this in the login screen.

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leniumC
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You cannot delete the built-in administrator account, but you can disable it.

Run a Command Prompt (cmd) with "Run as Administrator" and enter:

net user administrator /active:no
harrymc
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