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  "path": "/threads/laptop-sold-to-a-friend-with-original-owners-administrator-user-account-needs-to-be-tweaked.2634377/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-11T04:59:03.000Z",
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  "textContent": "My friend Linda -- not a computer nerd -- is on a shoe-string budget. She bought a Lenovo laptop from somebody named \"Larry\" at the senior center.\n\nLarry's account persists on the system. Her account does not seem to be an \"administrator\" account, and I cannot figure out how to change it. But we can still log on with Larry's account, and then log off and log on again with Linda's.\n\nThis problem seemed to affect the options for installing software, or when we want to \"run as administrator\". We actually got the drivers and software installed for a perfectly-working flatbed Canon scanner released in 2007 -- all works fine.\n\nBut I want to purge Larry's account and upgrade Linda's to \"administrator\".\n\nI've been through similar hoops on my network with 5 systems. Here's my idea and my plan.\n\nI think we should log on as \"Larry\". Then -- we should ADD a new account for Linda with an account name not too different from her existing account. And in the process of adding an account...\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Laptop sold to a friend with original owner's \"administrator\" user account -- needs to be tweaked"
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