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Guide To Enable Or Disable Windows 7 Administrator Account

[ 0 ] June 21, 2009 | Abi

By default Windows 7 doesn’t show Administrator account unlike in Windows previous edition such as XP. Actually there’s Administrator account in Windows 7, but it’s hidden in your system, so to make it shows up you need to take few steps to make it shows or visible. And why you need to enable the administrator account on Windows 7? It’s pretty useful in case of troubleshooting happens to your system.

Here is what you should to to enable and disable the master Administrator account in Windows 7:

  • Right-clicking on the command prompt icon in the Windows 7 start menu
  • Select Run As Administrator from the available options.
    Run As Administrator
  • Use the command to enable administrator account in the command line:
  • net user administrator /active:yes

  • The following command is for disabling administrator account:
  • net user administrator /active:yes

  • And if you want to change the Administrator password this is the command:
  • net user administrator password

There’s an alternative method to enable or disable Windows 7 Administrator Account:

  • You can simply navigate to Control Panel —> System and Security–>Administrative Tools–>Local Security Policy

    Windos 7 Local Security Oke

  • Now double click on “Accounts: Administrator account status“ Then chose between enable or disable in the option menu. & C ya!

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