Frederik,
First thing you should know is, I'm not the most technically savvy computer user--I know enough to get by and can sometimes fix issues following instructions found in communities like this one. However, in all the years I've been using a computer, I've never
had a spare admin account--that is until a couple days ago.
They go bad? If so, why aren't users prompted to create additional admin accounts when setting up their Windows OS's? I guess I'm not really averse to leaving it there, I just didn't think it was doing anything for me so I thought I'd get rid of it.
Some observations re the "new" admin account:
When I did log on using that account, the first thing I noticed was that only about four shortcut icons transferred from my regular desktop, none of which (other than the Recycle Bin) would have been my choice to put there had I had one. None of the other
30+ shortcuts from my regular account were there. Also while in this new admin account, I uploaded the photo of my monitor (above, in my OP) and saved it to the desktop. This was after I edited it in Paint, which I had to go find. I had to go find it because
the shortcut for it was no longer readily available in the "Life at a glance" section of the start button where I had put it before. After I logged out of this account and back into my "normal" one, the photo I'd saved to the Admin account desktop was nowhere
to be found! I even searched for it in File Explorer, to no avail.
So, if my "normal" admin account goes bad, what good is the backup if I can't find (because it isn't there?) the file/program/app that I'm looking for?