Activate the built-in administrator account. Disabling the built-in Administrator account

Windows 7 takes security seriously, so the Administrator account is disabled by default. To turn it on, you will have to make a few extra movements, and as a result you will get full-fledged administrative rights V Windows system 7.

You can enable the administrator account in several ways - through GUI or command line.

The first option is the simplest - through the interface.

Enabling an account through the interface

Press the key combination , enter the command in the field that opens lusrmgr.msc and click on the button OK. The snap-in will open .

Click on the folder in the left pane Users. Now find the account Administrator in the central panel and right-click on it. Select a team Properties.

In the window Properties: Administrator go to the tab Are common(or it will open immediately) and uncheck .

As you can see, enabling the administrator account in Windows 7 is not difficult at all. However, using the command line it is even easier to do this.

Enabling an account via the command line

Click the button Start, enter the command in the search bar cmd. An icon for cmd.exe will appear at the top of the search window. Right click on it and select command Run as administrator.

Now enter the following command in the command line (for Windows 7 in Russian):

Net user Administrator /active:yes

Well, for English Windows versions 7 you will need to use the following command:

Net user Administrator /active:yes

Now you can go to the administrator account. Click the button Start, then on the arrow next to the button Shutdown and select a team Change user.

In Windows® 7, the built-in administrator account is disabled by default. IN previous versions Windows account an “Administrator” entry with a blank password was automatically created when the operating system was first started.

An Administrator account with a blank password is a source of danger. To better protect your system, the built-in Administrator account is disabled by default in all new installations and upgrades of Windows 7.

In audit mode the program Windows installations implicitly includes the built-in "Administrator" account as last action setup stage auditSystem, if the built-in Administrator account is not already enabled. The first step of the setup phase auditUser is a built-in disabling account"Administrator". This allows you to run programs and applications as an Administrator account. After completing the audit mode settings and logging out, the built-in Administrator account is disabled. If you want to leave the built-in Administrator account enabled, you can re-enable it in Audit mode.

Enable the built-in Administrator account in Windows 7

There are two ways to enable the built-in Administrator account.

• Using the parameter automatic installation AutoLogon

  The built-in Administrator account can be used during an unattended installation by setting the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup component's AutoLogon setting to Administrator. This action enables the built-in Administrator account, even if no password is specified in the AdministratorPassword parameter.

  You can create an answer file by using Windows Setup Manager.

  The following sample answer file shows how to enable the Administrator account, set the Administrator account password, and automatically sign in.

SecurePasswd123