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When reading through guides about how to harden earlier versions of Windows, one of the recommended courses of action is to rename the Administrator account to slow down potential hackers. In Windows ...

In a situation when you have multiple users in your Windows 11/10 PC at home or office, where a Windows User Account needs to be disabled because of a security reason or because that particular user ...

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If you disable the User Account Control in Windows 10, all programs will have same security clearance as the account you're logged in with. However, disabling that feature is a terrible idea. Sarah is ...

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A reactivated built-in Administrator account will be automatically deactivated when upgrading from Windows 10 version 1803 to Windows 10 version 1809 according to a post published on Microsoft's ...

I was investigating a possible open relay on our Xserve (Mac OS X 10.5.9) and did a "select all" and disable in our Open Directory domain. This disabled the open directory administrator account (oops!