Friday, September 16, 2011

Enable the Hidden administrator Account in windows 7

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Enable Built-in Administrator Account

First you’ll need to open a command prompt in administrator mode by right-clicking and choosing “Run as administrator” (or use the Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut from the search box)

Now type the following command:

net user administrator /active:yes

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You should see a message that the command completed successfully. Log out, and you’ll now see the Administrator account as a choice.


You’ll note that there’s no password for this account, so if you want to leave it enabled you should change the password.

Disable Built-in Administrator Account

Make sure you are logged on as your regular user account, and then open an administrator mode command prompt as above. Type the following command:

net user administrator /active:no

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The administrator account will now be disabled, and shouldn’t show up on the login screen anymore.

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