You'll note that there's no password for this account, so if you want to leave it enabled you should change the password. Log out, and you'll now see the Administrator account as a choice. You should see a message that the command completed successfully.
After that you only need to enter the simple command below to activate it.ģ. First you'll need to open a command prompt in administrator mode by right-clicking and choosing 'Run as administrator' (or use the Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut from the search box)Ģ. To enable the built-in Administrator's account by using the Command Prompt please follow these steps:ġ. Enable Built-in Administrator Accountīasically there are 4 ways in order to activate the account: A) Command Prompt After doing some research, Iįound the following procedure that worked really well.
Furthermore, this account is not associated with any password. Like in Windows Vista, in Windows 7 the built-in Administrator's account is disabled by default. This was not because I had forgotten the local administrator password, but because the local administratorĪccount was disabled (which is the default behavior in Windows 7).
Recently I ran into an awkward situation where after disjoining a Windows 7 client machine from the domain, I was unable to log in to the computer.
