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Sunday 30 October 2011

How to Enable and Disable the (Hidden) Administrator Account on Windows 7 or Vista

In windows 7 and vista bu default there is a Administrator account which is by default disable so if you want to use this account you need to enable it .You really shouldn’t use this account for anything other than troubleshooting. If you are troubleshooting something that needs to run as administrator, you can enable it with a simple command.

 Go to start and in search box type.
  cmd  > right click and run as administrator

 







now in the command prompt type
net user administrator /active:yes
You should see a message that the command completed successfully. Log out, and you’ll now see the Administrator account .You’ll note that there’s no password for this account, so if you want to leave it enabled you should change the password.
To disable this built in Administrator  just type in the command prompt .
net user administrator /active:no
 

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