Windows 10: Exorcising God Mode

A couple of years ago I created a super-user admin account. I never found much reason for keeping it but I'm having trouble deleting it. This problem may have been caused by some work I was doing and I received a message stating that if I continued I may lose the ability to change or delete the account (named God Mode). I was going too fast and ignored the message, which was spot on with the warning. This is not a normal admin account which I log on to every day. I also have tried unsuccessfully the following to rid God Mode:
Net user administrator /active:no.
Any suggestions?

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Exorcising God Mode

Are you saying you created an Admin account "named" God Mode, or that you created the God Mode folder?


This site describes the God Mode folder....

What Is the “God Mode” Folder in Windows 10, and How Do I Enable It?

 

Exorcising God Mode

Dugly,

The account cannot be deleted. It is a system item.

All you can do is disable it as you have been trying to do.

Because you renamed it [to God mode] I am not sure what the OS now refers to it as. Enter this command in a Command prompt window
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and see if it is listed as Administrator or as God mode.

If it is referred to as Administrator still then I do not know why your command
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went wrong, assuming that you entered the command in an Admin prompt. That command should disable it.
- It should then disappear from Settings, Accounts & Control panel, User accounts
- It will still be listed in Net user results because that lists every account [enabled & disabled].
What response do you get to the command?

By the way, the Administrator account is no more powerful than any Admin account you create yourself.
- It is not a "Super user" in any sense.
- In some ways, it is less powerful because Apps do not run in it.
- There are often claims that the Administrator account has greater powers than the Admin accounts you create yourself but they are incorrect.

I can't think of any message along those lines. Did you take a screenshot of it?

Denis

 

Exorcising God Mode

A couple of years ago I created a super-user admin account. I never found much reason for keeping it but I'm having trouble deleting it. This problem may have been caused by some work I was doing and I received a message stating that if I continued I may lose the ability to change or delete the account (named God Mode). I was going too fast and ignored the message, which was spot on with the warning. This is not a normal admin account which I log on to every day. I also have tried unsuccessfully the following to rid God Mode:
Net user administrator /active:no.
Any suggestions?