Cannot change my administrative user account

I was not able to change my standard administrative user account.  It gives me an error message.  I bought and downloaded McAfee Security online and am now having trouble with my windows firewall (which I believe is supposed to be in the off position).  I'm at the point of reinstalling my software because of all the problems I encounter.

You must have Admin rights so is your only value user account? Change it to Admin with the invisible
Account. Another new Admin to test and fix and possibly a 3rd to migrate to.

McAfee will turn off Defender - to turn this back on

Start - type in the search--> service box found at the top of the list of Services - RIGHT CLICK – RUN AS ADMIN

Windows Defender service - change to START - AUTOMATIC

Disable change at stop SIGN - MANUAL or DISABLED

The above, stop the service and you must also turn on or off in the program according to the needs.

How to enable or disable the Windows Defender
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/93118-Windows-Defender-off.html

More information in this thread
http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistasecurity/thread/574fb871-034C-4B42-B800-328af16a9177

Windows Defender error when you restart the computer with VirusScan installed 2009
http://service.McAfee.com/faqdocument.aspx?ID=TS100610&lang=en_US&prior_tid=2&AnswerID=16777216&Turl==http://KB.McAfee.com/InfoCenter/index?page%3Dcontent%26id%3DTS100610%26actp%3Dsearch
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