User Account problem in Windows 7

[techq01]

Unable to change Guest account type from Administrator to Standard after inadvertently changing the original account from Adminstrator.  The Guest account as Administrator will not allow the creation of new accounts, reset, account type changes, etc.

[Joey]

Ah, yes. I run into that problem at work about once a month. The first time I ran into the problem it took me several weeks to figure it out, haha.

Checkout this video from my one of my YouTube Channels. I did the video in Vista. I now have Windows 7 and I saw that the settings/options covered in this video have not changed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CWE6QnGbPI (External Embedding Disabled)

At the 44 second mark you need to Delete the "Administrators" group in order to take away those privileges from the User you want to strip the Admin rights from.

[Pam]

Local users and groups is not available in Windows 7 Home Premium.  Do you know if there is a way that I can install the snapin for it.  When I try to access "lusrmgr.msc" I get message "the snapin may not be used with this version of Windows".  I think I may need to do a recover or upgrade to a version that includes it.

[Joey]

Here is an alternate method I performed to fix the problem.

1. Create a New User. Make that User an Administrator
2. Restart the PC
3. Login to your old Administrator account you want to keep
4. Set the Guest account in question back to Standard User
5. Delete the New User/Admin account you just created

I have no idea why but for some reason Windows wants you to create 2 separate Administrator accounts. And it forces you to almost always keep 2 Admin accounts. That is the reason I found that a fix for this is to create a 3rd Admin account. It will then allow you to edit 1 of the 3 and set it to a Standard User