Unable to delete the second account administrator on Windows XP...

Work on two laptops, two Dell Vostro 1000, both with Windows XP Professional, for a client who owns a restaurant. This customer wants to create two user accounts on each laptop, with administrative privileges (for restaurant management) and the other with privileges limited (for the staff in the restaurant). The customer wants also these laptops be stripped of any area with which they were associated. Change the administrator password on both to something new, I went in "System Properties" and made every laptop a member of a workgroup, rather than a field. After the reboot, I went to create a different account on each laptop, one with privileges limited to the restaurant staff. Windows would allow me, however, to create such an account, because he said that he first must be an existing account with administrator privileges. There was, however, such an account and the other on which I had control so the situation was confused. I went to create a second administrator account on two laptops, after what I have created a limited user account. Now, I have two administrator accounts and a limited account. I would like to remove one of the two administrator accounts, but Windows XP gives me no clear option to do so. What can we do?

Have a single administrator account is also short-sighted as having a key to the House. In this forum we deal regularly with the requests from users who are no longer able to use their one and only the admin account. A minor accident causes them a lot of grief.

You must keep the two admin accounts, give everyone a strong password, and then give the owner a detailed documentation on both of them. You should also put warning on the dangers of the use of an obsolete operating system and unsupported.

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