You might been thinking what the hell happened to the Administrator account that was usually created in prior versions of Windows.

Windows Vista creates that account each time you install it. But for some reason I dono, its disabled by default thus can’t be used. I’m sure sometimes you would love to run as administrator just to troubleshoot or do some tweaks, just a simple command can enable it.

Enable Built-in Administrator Account

First you’ll need to  bring up 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)

Now type the following command:

net user administrator /active:yes

At this point you will be greated by a message saying the command was success fully activated .  Now Log out, and you’ll now see the Administrator account at the login screen. You’ll note that there’s no password for this account, for safety purpose I suggest you should create a password for.

Disable Built-in Administrator Account

Login as a regular user account, and then open an administrator mode command prompt as above. Type the following command:

net user administrator /active:no

The administrator account shouldn’t come up now at the login window.