Windows 7 has resemblance to its predecessor, Windows Vista, in many respects. Speaking of its security, the UAC is one of useful features that has mixed up reactions from Windows users when it was first introduced in Windows Vista. You can turn this off if you work on administrator account in Windows 7 but the administrator account is no where to be seen because it is not activated by default. This post will show you how to activate the account.
Please note before proceeding with the following steps, you don't have actually to activate this account at all unless you need the administrator account for troubleshooting your Windows 7.
Basically there are 2 ways in order to activate the account:
a) Command Prompt
b) Local Security Policy
1. Command Prompt
First you need to run Command Prompt as an administrator. You can do that by right clicking on the command prompt in the program list and choose "Run as administrator".
After that you only need to enter the simple command below to activate it.
net user administrator /active:yes
You can also specify your password for this particular account by using the following command
Net user administrator password
where you can replace "password" with your own password. You can see the account immediately after you logoff your Windows 7. In order to deactivate it, you can use the command below
net user administrator /active:no
This will effectively turn off the administrator account.
2. Local Security Policy
Another way of activating the administrator account in Windows 7 is via Local Security Policy. Type secpol.msc in the search bar and hit enter. After the Local Security Policy pops up, navigate to Local Policies-> Security Options where you can see an entry that reads Accounts: Administrator account. Double click the entry to enable it.
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Stop trying to make yourselves sound smart. It’s much quicker to do it without the command line. Open Control panel>administrative tools>computer management. Expand “local users and groups” and click users.Double click on “Administrator” and uncheck the “Account is disabled” tick box.
Much easier and quicker, especially for trying to talk through your average users. Basically, this post is a waste of post, considering I just typed in four lines, what took you a page!
How’s your method faster then two lines of code? Average users should really have no use for the admin account anyway so whatchu talking about?
Now, who is trying to act “smart”.
Yes, Summononononer2100, you can do many things in Windows by using different methods…
However, the Administrator account doesn’t always show up there for a user to be able to untick the box.
For MOST things that you can also do with the command line, such as this, are about 100 times quicker.
You can enable the administrator account by this suggested (and preferred) method in less than 10 seconds.
By the way, if you choose to call it a Tick box, then you say “tick” or “untick” the box and if you are going to call it a Check box, you say “check” or “uncheck” it.
Sorry — both these “geeks” are wrong. The command line solution simply doesn’t work and summoner2100 either can’t get his story straight or has no idea what he’s talking about, i.e., the computer management utilities in windows has nothing to do with user accounts unless your running a specific version of windows 7 and you’ve got the correct snap-ins, all “little” details summoner2100 didn’t “think” were important or simple (most likely) was completely clueless about (Sigh)
@ summoner:
This is all you need to type in command prompt (cmd.exe in Search):
net user administrator /active:yes
Net user administrator password
net user administrator /active:no
Three lines. I win.
Actualy, this way is easier and quicker, since u only have write in one line and enter.
summoner2100: Go get a warm glass of shut the fuck up and go troll somewhere else. The above instructions were accurate.
Very usefull.
Thank you!
Smartness may only have a little to do with it. The Local Users and Groups MMC snap-in isn’t enabled on Home Premium. But the command line does work. I’ve verified both on my Home Premium box this morning.
summoner2100… too harsh. I found it easier to do with the command line. Knowing more than one way to do something is a good thing.
summoner2100 – you’re an idiot. Go sit in the corner.
yo, hater2100 if you type fast then its faster the the GUI. he is just helping in his own way. you can do a lot with a GUI but sometimes all you need is a shell (oh and if you didn’t know what that means its another word for any OS based prompt).
Well son, if you were as wise as the good folks who wrote this article you would have realized that the local users and groups policy management tool isn’t available for Windows 7 home users. So the only way these users can change this setting is by using the smarty pants command-line method…
@summoner2100
Whats with the bitch attitude?XD
yeah? and whut do u say about this which i consider mosimple and effective
right click the my computer icon clcik on manage and then expand the local users and from here u descrived it corectly
as you tell to enable the administrator by 3 ways but all three way i do but i get access denied you have no permission
Any information that can be used in the field by an engineer is gratefully accepted and if there are more than just the one way of doing things, then so much the better. Thank you to the author of this article for being so precise and for providing multiple approaches. Summoner2100, have you spent many years as a field engineer at all? I have and the number of times that one method cannot be used but another can has saved the day on more ocassions than I care to mention. All advice like this, especially when it works well, is sound advice. For those who couldn’t get it to work, I guess that you didn’t rund the .cmd as admin.Take it all onboard folks
David A
Thanx man, it works..
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This is the only way to enable the admin with out error 101% for idk about u guys. For Mr summoner2100 i have only 3 step its gna work perfectly on you KID very very easy step 1 open .cmd 2. type uninstal operating system thats your done. so easy and sound smart right Kid? yea kid you need to grow up.
For the author of this article THANK U for sharing this its work like a charm perfect.