Sunday, 27 January 2008

Activating hidden Administrator account in Windows

Sometimes you may need to activate the hidden adminstrator account in windows to fix some issues (for instance if your profile is curropt and you can't log in normally).

To activate the hidden administrator account, go to the windows command prompt and type

Net user administrator /active:yes

That's it. Next time you logoin, you'll be presented with a new Administrator account with no password!!

to disable it type
Net user administrator /active:no


As much as this is a bit of a scary thing, it saved my ass a couple of times especially when windows messes up the user profile and you can't login to your account!!

Works in XP and Vista!! Good Luck

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