deleting user from logon

Win XP
normally default is Administrator logon which boots automatical (no logon prompt)

i went and added NMSquirrel as user so i could see my handle on the start menu(shouldn't have)..now my system stops at logon screen and waits for me to click a user (Admin or NMS) i don't want to have to click to logon, i want to turn on my comp and come back to it later and have it ready for me..

i have tried several utilities to auto log me in, but those are not reliable, sometimes they log me on, sometimes they don't..

How do i delete NMSquirrel as user and just keep the Admin account?
it wont let me delete NMSquirrel unless i create another account with Admin rights,(funny how Administrator logon doesn't qualify..)

 

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Why don't you create another logon ID and give yourself Admin rating. Then use that ID to delete the other one. Then change your boot paramiters so that the defalt Admin choice does not show at boot time. If I recall WinXP you normally had to boot in safe mode to get the standard Admin logon choice. I'd say if that doesn't work try using admin from safe mode.

 

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i tried safe mode..it didn't change any of my options from the user menu in control panel.
(neither Admin or NMSquirrel) still could not delete.

 

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Curious. If your "Administrator" account is the original default one that XP sometimes provides (when not in Safe Mode), then it should have disappeared when you created NMSquirrel with the same non-limited account status. Or maybe I'm instead remembering how an unused and empty Admin default account became hidden, rather than one that was actually utilized by a user for some time. Obviously you already tried un-clicking the "Use Welcome Screen" option in User Accounts, and that didn't remedy anything. That is, afterwards the OS still presented some other type of log-on, and when you tried to delete NMSquirrel it still prevented it via pretending that you would have no other administrator account?

 

Again If I recall correctly, when you enter the create new accounts window, you are saying you can't select the account you want to delete and then delete it? I believe you have to have at least one user account at all times. The default Admin account does not count as this user account. So if you are trying to delete the only user account, it won't let you do it.

Next, have you tried using some MS forums? I'm sure they still have a sub-forum for WinXP users. I didn't like XP much when I used it many years ago and I like it even less now.

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Yes, the core mystery is apparently why the default Admin didn't return to being hidden as it normally does, in Safe Mode, after the user created an account with the same privileges. By hanging around it triggers a log-on option or screen, and yet XP regards it as it would under normal conditions: Being hidden and no longer an existing or a causal factor when it actually still is.

 

Yeah! There is a not very well known option that lets you display the Admin logon in normal boot up. MS didn't want the average user to have access to it, so they hid it and made it hard to find unless you were an advanced user. I don't remember how to turn it on and off. But it shouldn't be much of a troublesome search effort for a determined individual.

 

If you have more than one user account on your computer, Fast User Switching is an easy way for another person to log on to the computer without logging you off or closing your programs and files. For instructions on creating user accounts, see Create a user account.

Click the Start button , and then click the arrow next to the Shut Down button .

Click Switch User.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and then click the user you want to switch to.

hange a user's account type

When you set up Windows, you were required to create a user account. This account is an administrator account that allows you to set up your computer and install any programs that you'd like to use. Once you finish setting up your computer, we recommend that you create a standard account and use it for your everyday computing. If you create new user accounts, you should also make them standard accounts. Using standard accounts will help keep your computer more secure.

Click to open User Accounts.

Click Manage another account. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Click the account you want to change, and then click Change the account type.

Select the account type you want, and then click Change Account Type.


Perhaps this may help. :shrug:

 

correct.
Instead of the logon icons it would present a logon field with username and password the user would have to type in manually both.

 

I never found it a problem having more than one logon ID. As a matter of fact having the guest account for friends and kids to use can sometimes save you much grief. Also, if your not worried about security, one letter passwords work just fine.

 

dot net framework might have something to do with this. don't know though.

XP must have at least one administrator account.

 

one would think the Administrator account would qualify..

 

You might cautiously try what the Canadian poster "Zxian" suggests on the following forum -- try to delete (in your slightly different case) the NMSquirrel account at the welcome screen rather than in the default Administrator account -- or anything else submitted by others below him/her: http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/18504-deleting-all-accounts-but-hidden-windows-xp-administrator-account.html

As to the underlying cause of all this: It's unusual for the default Administrator account to actually have been used for some time as "one's account". It's only intended to be temporarily visible until the buyer of the PC or whoever creates another account with the same status. In the person's case below, the default still went into hiding even after she used it as a regular account, which was something she didn't want to happen (I'm purely guessing that maybe she didn't use it as a regular account as long as you did):

Q: If I delete the new account I created will it default back to Administrator on the Welcome screen?

A: You really don't want to do that; it's asking for real trouble. The Administrator account should *not* be used as a regular user account. It should be reserved as a fallback maintenance account. LINK

Perhaps XP sometimes kicks into a safeguard to not hide the default as it normally would if it had been employed as a regular account for a long period. Yet being conflicted in its programming, XP also treats it as if it had been hidden, refusing to count it as a viable administrator account (or the OS just returns to what it should have been doing in the first place: Pressuring the owner to not be using the default for anything other than creating their own first account and for later back-up emergencies).