How to enable Administrator account in Vista
Posted on June 3, 2008 at 5:19 am
Need to logon as Administrator in Vista? Well first you need to enable the Administrator account! Annoying right? By default, Vista’s secure computing initiative decided that it would be best to disable the Administrator account in Vista so that malicious programs cannot run and take over your computer.
Actually, it’s a good security measure, it’s just annoying if you need to logon to the Administrator account. Luckily, it’s not very hard to enable the admin account in Vista, so here are the steps you need to take in order to get the Administrator account as an option on the Vista logon screen.
Enable Administrator Account in Vista
Step 1: First you need to click on the Start Menu and right click on Computer. From the context menu, choose Manage.
Step 2: In the left hand menu, expand Local User and Groups and then click on Users.
Step 3: Now right-click on the Administrator account and choose Properties. You’ll see a check box called “Account is disabled” that is checked.
Go ahead and un-check that box to enable the Administrator account in Vista! That’s it! If this didn’t work for some reason, post a comment and I can try to help. Enjoy!
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gud tip buddy…simple and neat.
Thanks, I use “net user administrator /active:yes” command.
Greetings
Abhsihek - Thanks! I like the simple how-to guide every once in a while.
Juanito - Nice! I didn’t know that command! Does that enable the Vista administrator account?
I am doing all these steps but not getting the administrator icon after logging off
if i use this command i am getting and “:error message assces denied ”
“system error 05″
I use “net user administrator /active:yes”
how to rectify it please reply mee
i have limited user account only
Thanks.
This works for Vista Ultimate. How about vista Home basic or Home Premium where there is no Local User access ?
You need to do in command prompt only (Start > Run > CMD).
Then type, “net user administrator /active“
I have Home Premium and there’s no Local users and groups-item in my Comp mgmt console!!!
Help?
Do I dare to do the cmd prompt thing?
yeah, command prompt works great.
I didn’t have “Local Users and Groups” in the menu. Only Task Scheduler, Event Viewer, Shared Folders, Reliability and Performance, and Device Manager. I made myself Administrator (I thought) through the User Accounts.
However, suddenly I get “This program has been disabled” when I try to restore my desktop wallpaper. It tells me to contact the System Administrator. I found something about secpol.msc, but my computer is Home Basic and doesn’t have it.
Ceci,
Only Vista Ultimate has Local Users and Groups in menu. Admin through User Account doesnt give your admin privileges.
You need to do in command prompt only (Start > Run > CMD).
Then type, net user administrator /active
well I wish it was that easy but not quite. unfortunately vista home premium defaults with the following CMD line
C:\users\robert henry\
in my case anyway. not to worry though the administrator account can be done in CMD and you can get rid of another pesky vista problem at the same time (UAC) yea the stupid little tingy that asks you every 5 seconds if you are sure you want to do what you are doing.
here is how you do it. open configeration utility (start search for msconfig there is only one thing there open it)
go to tools
look for the line that says disable UAC
click it
click launch at the bottom right of the screen
a CMD opens and at the top it says operation successful
on the new command line that is now there and is not linked to the local user account that you are logged in as type
net user administrator /active
hit enter and a confirmation comes up. you will need to restart the computer but when you do UAC is off and administrator is on. note that you will need to add a administrator password to the administrator account and under the disable button is the enable button if for some off reason you ever want to turn on UAC again
hope this is helpful