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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 04:46:48 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Linda Walsh!

> Andrey Repin wrote: 
>> Your system seems to be mangled. There should be no "root" user.
>> 
>> Also, please avoid top posting as per list rules.
> ----
>         You are missing one?  Don't tell me, you have
> Administrator instead?

No, I have my own account, that's quite enough.

> Maybe that's why you see Greg's messages as top-posted, where
> as I saw him as interleaving his response w/what I said? ;-)

>         If you have Win7-Pro or above, you can rename Admin
> and Guest accounts --

You can rename them in NT4, too. Just sayin'.

> which is recommended for security reasons.

Obscurity has no relation to security.
Oh, and these both are disabled on my systems.

> If you read windows 'rules', you'd know that... (so many rules
> to read...really hard for someone to keep up)...

There's no such rules as "rename default accounts".
It makes no sense and bears no reason.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, September 25, 2015 04:43:28

Sorry for my terrible english...


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