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 Administratorfrom the available options.

- Use the command to enable administrator account in the command line:
- The following command is for disabling administrator account:
- And if you want to change the Administrator password this is the command:
net user administrator /active:yes
net user administrator /active:yes
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 - Now double click on “Accounts: Administrator account status“ Then chose between
enableordisablein the option menu. & C ya!
