When I start my laptop in safe mode, I have 2 accounts displayed, i.e. Administrator and one as R122, but when I start it in normal mode, only the R122 account is being displayed and not the Administrator one.
My R122 account is password protected, so once I had a problem in installation and had to go to safe mode for some reason, I was shocked to see 2 accounts.
I had once formatted my laptop with a friend of mine.
Why are there 2 accounts in safe mode and only 1 in normal mode ?
Best Answer
On Windows XP the local Administrator account was enabled by default. When you create another Administrator account the Local Administrator account is no longer shown on the normal logon screen. However, as you found, it still appears in Safe Mode.
In later versions of Windows this account is disabled by default.
You can disable the Local Administrator account with these instructions.