I need to delete the administrator account on my windows 10 system at work because she is no longer working here & no one knows her password to get into the administrator account & delete it & set up a new one. can anyone tell me how to get this accomplished?
Welcome to the forum. Can you login to the pc with any admin password?
yes there is another administrator login on here that works to sign on to the computer but when I try to download certain things & so on that old one pops up & wants the password & I cant change that.
I would like to just delete her account all together but every time I try it asks for the password & shes long gone & theres no way to get in touch with her
Make sure you are an admin account I would as a precation create another admin account then follow this How To Delete The Administrator Account In Windows 10
When it asks non-admin accounts for an admin password to authorise something, it routinely suggests the last admin account used. If you click on More choices, you will see a list of admin accounts and you can just select the one you now have access to. The next time the dialog appears it will suggest that as the admin account to use to give permission to proceed.
Once you have done this and seen it all working, you can either delete her old account [after having checked her user folders to make sure there is nothing there you need] or, assuming it is a local account not an MSAccount, just reset her password then put on a new one** so that the account is available as a spare admin.
** Which you should write down.
Denis
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