In the beginning I would like to apologize for my bad English and my poor knowledge of the subject.
I am running a Windows 7 Enterprise. This laptop was my father's and he got it from his old company. Credentials I used to log in were PROM\ratk (domain\user) + password. In control panel, user accounts, I found out that the computer had 3 accounts. 2 of them were on a different domain. (RATK\user1 and RATK\user2). I wanted to make a new username so i tried to delete all of them. The only one I couldn't delete was the second one (RATK\user2). I edited it, so that it had my username and my password. Additionally, I made that account the 'Administrator' one. When I restarted my computer, I logged in with the new, and to my knowledge, the only account, I couldn't change the firewall settings. The message "For your security, some settings are managed by your system administrator". I tried to log with the old account and the old domain (PROM\ratk) and it worked. Like the account has never been deleted.
My question is: Is there a way for me to DELETE ALL of the accounts and just end up with ONE that will have ALL the administrator privileges (so that I can freely change firewall settings) and still keep all of my programs and files (there still are some important files on the PROM\ratk account)?
I am running a Windows 7 Enterprise. This laptop was my father's and he got it from his old company. Credentials I used to log in were PROM\ratk (domain\user) + password. In control panel, user accounts, I found out that the computer had 3 accounts. 2 of them were on a different domain. (RATK\user1 and RATK\user2). I wanted to make a new username so i tried to delete all of them. The only one I couldn't delete was the second one (RATK\user2). I edited it, so that it had my username and my password. Additionally, I made that account the 'Administrator' one. When I restarted my computer, I logged in with the new, and to my knowledge, the only account, I couldn't change the firewall settings. The message "For your security, some settings are managed by your system administrator". I tried to log with the old account and the old domain (PROM\ratk) and it worked. Like the account has never been deleted.
My question is: Is there a way for me to DELETE ALL of the accounts and just end up with ONE that will have ALL the administrator privileges (so that I can freely change firewall settings) and still keep all of my programs and files (there still are some important files on the PROM\ratk account)?