How to enable administrators account in Vista using Command Prompt

By default the Administrator account in vista is disabled. You can easily enable it using the built in command prompt

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Windows Vista

1. The first way you can enable or disable the administrators account is by using the command prompt, which I find the easiest to work with. To do this you go to START > SEARCH > type in COMMAND > you will see COMMAND PROMPT come up on the screen; click on it.

2. Once command prompt is open you will type in:
   
   net user administrator /active:yes
   
   You will then see, "The command completely successfully"

3. To disable the adminitrators account, you go through the same process, but in command prompt type in:
   
   net user administrator /active:no
   
   Again, you should see, "The command completely successfully"
   
   If it is not successful then re-type it.

4. Some people would rather use the local policy editor rather than command prompt for safety reasons. And due to the fact that what you have to type out is kind of hard to remember.

[mattsaboy]

on 9/8/2009 Excellent article. 5 stars and a recommendation.