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Posted by Steve Williamson on June 23, 2007, 9:08 am
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On Jun 16, 6:50 pm, BlueBrooke wrote:
> I had to change properties on a Windows Vista folder today and found
> something odd. Under group or user names I had:
>
> CREATOR OWNER
> SYSTEM
> Account Unknown (and a long serial number here)
> Administrators (UserName\Administrator)
> Users (UserName\Users)
>
> I have never noticed the "Account Unknown" entry before, and when I
> pull up the users list, there are only the two accounts that I know
> about. Guest account is disabled.
>
> Is this something I need to worry about? How do I find out what it
> is? How do I get rid of it? Should I get rid of it?
>
> I gave this account "deny" permissions with no ill-effects, so far.
Sounds to me like an old domain account. We've had a few Domain
accounts either deleted, or the PC cannot find a Domain Controller to
show the Display Name so it shows you the SID of the account (your
"serial number").
HTH
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