How to remove an additional admin account and keep the one I want

Recently bought a new iMac, I used the wizard to merge. She added a new my old mac admin account. Now I have two admin accounts.

I want to use the old Mac that has been transferred through and get rid of the other.

I'm going to SysPrefs/users / groups, unlock, but the-(minus) is grey and the other admin is grey too.

What to do what to do.

You can't delete an account once logged in it. You must log on to the account that you want to keep. Then go to users and groups, open the pane, select the account to be deleted and click the sign less.

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