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I can not remove my old Administrator account
I started by creating an administrator account for my wife to take over management of her newly installed computer, just about the final step of my setting up the Dell XPS 8650 desktop for her. I then looked up several sites that tell you how to remove an existing administrator account, none of which work for me.
The only folder under Settings/Accounts that shows my Administrator account is Family, but I can not nothing with that, such as removing it. Under Other Users my wife's new Administrator account is shown.
I even logged on to my Microsoft account, for the first time in a very long time, and did not see anything there about my quest to make PJ the new owner of the computer. I also used this forum's search engine to no avail.
I should create a macro to save me from having to type in the extremely obvious statement that any and all assistance will be gratefully appreciated.
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Removing an administrator account typically requires you to be logged into a different administrator account. If your old account is the only administrator account, you'll need to create a new one first, then remove the old account.
