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Delete a local account on XP on many machines?

 
 
Cyborg
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      5th Nov 2007
Somehow an image we use for XP has an admin acount created with no password.
This image has been used on loads of PC's and I was wondering if I can do a
mass delete remotely or just lock it?
Thanks

 
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      5th Nov 2007

"Cyborg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Somehow an image we use for XP has an admin acount created with no
> password. This image has been used on loads of PC's and I was wondering if
> I can do a mass delete remotely or just lock it?
> Thanks


Deleting or locking the admin account is not a good idea. Sooner
or later you will have to log on locally, which could be quite hard
without an operating admin account.

You could use psexec.exe to invoke a batch file like this one
on each PC:
@echo off
net user administrator newpassword

If you have a list of PC names then you could even automate the
process.


 
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