Administrator-Account under WinXP

[Npl]

I run since years without any kind of AV or Firewall, not that I had any problems with that, but Im curious to try out running my Account as restricted user and see if there are any annoying drawbacks.

Now, I cant set my Account as restricted without creating another Admin-Accout, yet I already have the default "Administrator"-Account. I can run setups as "Administrator" and even login as "Administrator" (after pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del), so I dont see the need for another Admin-Account.

Right now I have 3 Accounts:
My Original "User"-Account
The "Administrator"-Account
A newly created "MyAdmin"-Account which has the same settings as the "Administrator"-Account, just so I can restrict my "User"-Account. I`d like to kill this one, but cant.

Any explaination why its the way it is, or is there a way around that?

 

[chavvdarrr]

imho running compmgmt.msc -> "Local users and Groups" should allow you to delete this user

 

[Moloch]

you need atleast one admin account, other than the (disabled) one, in XP.
Dont ask why.

 

[Npl]

yeah, I deleted the redundant account through the administration settings, now theres only two of them.. now the Administrator acoount is showing up on the login screen, never did before.
Still weird, but better than before