change administrator name

catford

How do i change the administrator name on my pc?the system is secondhand and i cant load mcafee if i'm not the admin man? if i succeed,will the download overwrite any previous mcafee programs?? anyone help please?

Fran

What have you got under start/control panel/user accounts?

How are you getting on to the computer now? Do the users have passwords that you don't know? Can you find out from the person you bought it off?

catford

Working on it fran but its getting early.ex owner on holiday Ithink i,ll wait till they get back.

wolfman

You can't delete or change the system administrator account. You'll need the password no matter what. When you do get it, you can either continue using the admin account, or create a new user with admin privileges.

Fran

wolfman wrote:

You can't delete or change the system administrator account. You'll need the password no matter what. When you do get it, you can either continue using the admin account, or create a new user with admin privileges.

So what could you do if you bought 2nd hand and lost contact with the seller?

wolfman

Re-install....

Not really much you can do to be honest. Just make sure when you do buy, you have all the passwords etc... Normally (well if it were me) and I were selling I'd have cleared out the machine anyway, and set the passwords to blank. It might be worth trying some of the commonly used passwords, such as blank, or 'qwerty' etc...