What is the Administrator?

Created on 2003-02-25 by Rainer Gerhards.

Built-in account for administering the computer/domain.

The administrator has close-to-complete control over the local machine. More power over it does only the SYSTEM group have.

This information was verified with Windows 2000.

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Analysis, monitoring, near-real-time alerting of the Windows event log can be done with by MonitorWare Agent.

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