Rename The Administrator Account In Vista
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Why not make it more difficult for hackers and rename the local Administrator account? Doing so will stop some amateur hackers cold and will annoy the more determined ones. If you do decide to rename the account, try not to use the word Admin in its name. Pick something that won’t sound like it has rights to anything.
You can rename the Administrator account in Vista using the steps listed below.
- Click Start and click Control Panel.
- Click System and Maintenance, Administrative Tools and then the Local Security Policy.
- Within the console, expand Local Policies.
- Click Security Options. The various security options are displayed in the details pane.
- Double click Accounts: Rename Administrator Account.
- Type in the new account name and Click OK.
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8 Comments
brian
June 1st, 2007
at 7:06pm
hello.
i tried to follow the steps you listed in order to change the name of admin account in vista but i didn’t succed. the problem is that in administrative tools i can’t see local security policy.
is there another way to change the name?
thank you very much. B
Bobberta
October 20th, 2007
at 9:31am
I have the same problem. There’s no way to do it the way you’ve described.
Paul
November 16th, 2007
at 12:00pm
Actually, there’s a much easier way to do this. Just find ‘computer’ on your start menu, desktop, windows explorer - depending on how you’ve set up your preferences.
Right click on it - go to manage - expand Local Users and Groups - click on Users in the left pane - in the right pane, right click on Administrator and click ‘rename’
Isam Mansour
November 30th, 2007
at 9:44am
please help,
I got vista home premium lastnight, i set it with two accounts one with admin previlges and one without. I am connected to the internet via wireless connection. when i log on my disk top using my admin account i have wireless connection, but when i try logging using my non admin account i am not connected. can you help?
robert
February 9th, 2008
at 11:14pm
The method works on Enterprise… it may be that it’s unavailable on Home Premium and or Home Basic.
Mike
March 4th, 2008
at 11:46am
Yeah it wont work for home premium because home edition is not made for the advanced user.. you need to have business, or ultimate. But i heard you can change the policies in premium with a policy editor program…
P.S. you should enable the REAL admin account on your PC and then rename it to whatever you want..
Here is how to enable the real admin account:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67567-administrator-account.html
But make SURE you password it once you do it.. and i would only recommend a very advanced user to do this. In real admin mode you wont get those annoying UAC prompts everytime you want to go the bathroom!
Have fun and be careful
John
March 22nd, 2008
at 8:12am
While attempting to open a web site, the site says that internet explorer cannot open site and the following messgae appears”You are not currently logged into your computer as an administrator, this installer requires the user to be logged in as an administrator. Please log out and log back in as an administrator then restart the installer”. What gives?? What do I do?
Nirav
July 26th, 2008
at 9:15am
thank you so much it work on my laptop thank u once again
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