My iMac has two admin accounts (because I used Migration Assistant). How do I get the iMac to start up in the 2nd account?

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Open System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Options, press the padlock at the bottom left corner of the System Preferences window and choose the second user account next to "Automatic login". Your computer will always log in to this user account whenever you start up Mac OS X.
If you haven't got anything in the first user account, you can remove it from System Preferences > Users & Groups after logging into the second user account

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