Enable administrator account in Windows 7 or Vista

• Many people familiar with prior versions of Windows are curious what happened to the built-in Administrator account that was always created by default. Does this account still exist, and how can you access it?

• The account is created in Windows 7 or Vista, but since it’s not enabled you can’t use it. If you are troubleshooting something that needs to run as administrator, you can enable it with a simple command.

Enable Built-in Administrator Account



run following command

net user administrator /active:yes

A command you'll see the the command complete successfully message
log off the pc it'll applier the administrator account

• if you want to disable administrator account

follow the command mention below

Disable Built-in Administrator Account

net user administrator /active:no