Factory reset spawns multiple Administrator accounts


  1. allend66
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    Factory reset spawns multiple Administrator accounts


    Hi all

    Since I refreshed (factory restored) my win10 home laptop, it wants to creates admin accounts all by itself.

    This happens every 2 or 3 reboots, and the admin accounts appear at the logon screen.
    Before the refresh it booted to my log on. Now it boots to a list of accounts. First the inbuilt admin account appeared, which I tried to get rid of by the tutorial (net user administrator /active:no in elevated cmd).

    Sure enough after a couple of reboots it was back again. I tried leaving it and after a couple of bootups, another admin account appeared, this time with a user name and password (the inbuilt admin account didn't have a username, just password)

    Does anybody have idea what the heck is going on? (absolutely NOBODY else has access to my PC)
    Thanks
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  3. AndreyT
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    What is the name of that "another admin account" that appeared in addition to the usual built-in administrator?
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  4. allend66
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    Win 10 Home x64
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    "Administrator"

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