Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article describes how to change the built-in Administrator account name in Windows 10 to bolster your computer's security. We ...

To create a Local Administrator account from the Settings app, do the following: Once you click Next, you will be redirected back to the Accounts screen, and there, you can see the new local account ...

I know somebody who has an XP Pro machine, and I think he keeps it relatively up-to-date as far as Windows Update goes... but he still only has one account (the Admin account), whose name he hasn't ...

Some PC users may encounter the error message The specified account name is not valid when trying to edit (eg, adding a new trigger), disable or delete an already ...

In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz explains how you can activate and use the real Administrator account in Microsoft Windows 7. As you know, the User Account Control (UAC) ...

In early June, Computerworld published the story, “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.” At the bottom of page 5 of that story, I wrote that the built-in Administrator account is ...