In every installation of Windows XP, there is a built-in and defaut administrator user account named Administrator, which is equivalent to super user or root in Unix/Linux system. However, if you have set up another user account in Windows XP, the Administrator account will be hidden, cloaked and invisible in User Accounts or Computer Management. To see the Administrator account, you have to boot the Windows in Safe Mode. However, you can modify the Windows’s registry so that the Administrator account will be shown at Windows XP’s Welcome screen for you to select, in the Control Panel’s User Accounts and in the local user lists in Computer Management. • Launch Registry Editor. • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Winlogon SpecialAccounts UserList in the Registry Editor. • Double-click the Administrator key in the right pane. • If the Administrator key doesn’t exist, right-click on the above tree in the pane, choose New, DWORD Value, name it Administrator and press Enter. • Type 1 in the “Value data” box, and press. • Restart the computer. Note: To launch User Accounts in Control Panel, you can go to Control Panel -> User Accounts, or click Start -> Run, and then type control userpasswords and press Enter. ![]() Once you unhide and reveal the Administrator account, you can change its picture or assign it a password or change the password. In addition, on the next boot to the Welcome screen, the Administrator account will be visible, along with all of the computer’s other user accounts. Same for me, and not only that, but now I am also LOCKED OUT from my laptop, both when trying to use the administrator login (which I set) and my own account login!!! I KNOW the PWs are correct and I set them and saved them in a file (as I always do, with every new installation). There was no administrator entry in the registry, so I made one as set out above. What now, I really don’t have time to reinstall the whole, nor did I make a backup for the few files I had on there (it’s a secondary PC). I am devastated. I think I might have answer to your question! Firstly Reboot your system, Just after the brand name of your computer appears start pressing F8, it will take you to Boot Menu. From there choose, Safe Mode. Boot the PC with safe mode. The idea behind this is that, with safe mode it won’t ask you the user password So you can log in directly. After that you can directly go to the User Accounts option in Control Panel, and Delete the password of the corresponding Account. It won’t ask you to re-type the password in order to delete it Now you can reboot your system normally as you do everyday and there you go, you can access your computer. Hope I helped. Any other help is welcomed! I just tried this and not only didn’t it work, but now I am LOCKED OUT from my laptop, both when trying to use the administrator login (which I set) and my own account login!!! Oct 20, 2013 Enable and Disable the Built-in Administrator Account. Updated: October 20, 2013. Applies To: Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows. Here you learn how to Enable Administrator account in windows xp windows 7 windows 8 windows vista, active disabled administrator account. I KNOW the PWs are correct and I set them and saved them in a file (as I always do, with every new installation). There was no administrator entry in the registry, so I made one as set out above. What now, I really don’t have time to reinstall the whole, nor did I make a backup for the few files I had on there (it’s a secondary PC) – please help! How to Enable Administrator account Question How to enable administrator account (hidden) in windows xp, windows vista, windows 7, 8, 8.1, Windows 10? Solved Answer (Solution) Sure, we’ll help you with the step by step guide how you can enable or disable “administrator” user account (default user). Below, we will provide you the proper command so that you can run this command into command prompt(MS Dos) to enable administrator user. If you are looking forward to automatic method to do this then we have some “.bat” files here. Please choose one option from them. Follow the below given instructions. Metod 1: Automatic Fixit Download and Run this EXE file and make your administrator account active. • Click here to download • Click here to download Method 2: Do it Manually Steps 1. Click on Start 2. Then click on All programs 3. Then click on Accessories 4. Find there command prompt 5. Run this command prompt with administrative mode (right click on that and choose “Run as administrator) 6. Now type this following command into command prompt and then hit enter net user administrator /active:yes 7. You’ll get the message “ The command completed successfully” 8. That means your administrator account has been activated. If you’ll get this message “ system error 5 has occurred – Access is denied” 10. That means your command line has not run in administrative mode. First of all open this command prompt in administrative mode then run this command again. If you want to disable administrator account then type this following command net user administrator /active:no. Your Account has administrator rights but is not the Administrator account. The built in Administrator account is disabled by default.Enable Administrator Account in Vista1.See your Start menu and in “Accessories” list, open “Command Prompt” by right-clicking on its icon and selecting “Run as Administrator”2.Once the Command Prompt window appears, type in the command net user administrator /active:yes3. When done, logout of your current account. The Administrator account should be present on yourlog in screen. Re-Enable the UAC using this AccountIt is suggested you switch off of the integratedAdministrator account when done using it De-Activate Administrator Account in Vista 1. See your Start menu along with “Accessories” list, open “Command Prompt” by right-clicking on its icon and choosing “Run as Administrator”2. When the Command Prompt window appears, go into the command net user administrator /active:no3. When done, logout of theAdministrator account. The Administrator account should not be presenton your log in screen. Please reply back and inform us if the helped to resolve the issue – otherwise we will continue to troubleshoot – appreciate it This post was last updated on:2017-12-21| First Published:2013-03-12. ![]() Hello Techexperts!, nice to meet you all, I have problem with my windows 8.1, there actually when I’m gonna open Command Prompt (Admin) windows is saying that – ” This file doesn’t have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel.” What should I do now?, please tell me?, and perhaps my windows 8.1 is not activated, Is it’s the real reason for admin problem or other? This is the most ridiculous post I have seen. The TechHelp person did not understand the problem or the many people trying to explain. Clearly if you have the password for the Administrator account AND it is set to “/active:yes” then you can access CMD (as Administrator). In this case there would be no question or problem to be solved – you just log on! ![]() ![]() This is what Bill (contributor) tried to point out. Windows security is set so that Right-Mouse-Click on CMD for “run as Administrator” will either prompt for Administrator’s password, or the “Yes” option is denied (greyed out). If your Windows version prompts for password and you know the password and enter it, there is no problem. You can access CMD and reset the Administrator account to be visible by “/active:yes”. However, if your Windows version (such as RT 8.1) presents the “Yes” option greyed out, access to CMD with Administrator rights is not possible. The real question is this: When Administrator has been set as “/active:no”, and there is no Administrator visible as a user on Windows Users Log On screen, how can the Administrator log on? Hi, GenieMac, Thank you for highlighting this matter to us. We have not done any research on this, we will research on this matter and update on this page. As we keep saying CLEARLY, there is NO option (as of now OR you can say as we know) to active administrator account if you don’t have user of administrative privileges OR you know administrative privilege’s user account password. This post is only for assistance to know the command how to active the administrator account because administrator account does disable as default settings of windows. This thread is exasperating. I am having the same difficulty. If I right-click on “cmd” and “Run as administrator” then I am prompted for an administrator log-in and password. Under the System32 folder I am able to click on and get into the cmd prompt, but not as an administrator. I can no longer run many executable files. I have heard that malware bytes solves this problem. However, since I cannot add any more.exe file changes to the computer without an admin password, the only programs that can be updated are those that do so automatically, on a previously set schedule. “Microsoft Security Essentials” does have regular updates and scans, yet does not solve the problem. Why is it that another company has a program that evidently has been cleaning up this issue for a very long time, whereas Microsoft is not? Obviously this is a known malware problem that Microsoft has chosen not to address for some reason. I cannot get the laptop to boot up in safe mode. Additional problems are cropping up (no longer finding the “path” to a file when I click on it), and I fear that rebooting it one more time will be the end of this laptop. I have now been stalled on everything for work for weeks, and spent countless hours reading redundant articles that haven’t provided a solution without resorting to downloads (which I cannot run) or booting off of a disk that I don’t have. It would be great to have a different, workable solution. This command is for active the administrator account: “net user administrator /active:yes” This command is for de-active the administrator account: “net user administrator /active:no” If you get this following error message “system error 5 has occurred – Access is denied” while running this command, that means you have not started your command prompt window with administrative privileges or your account doesn’t have the administrative rights to do this which you have logged in right now. So please make sure, you are running command prompt with “Run as administrator” option by right click on that. Please revert back for any further help. Thanks Error message.
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