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Windows Administrator is an important service in the Windows operating system. It is a special login account provided by the Windows operating system. It helps to manage the device properly. This feature is used mainly in the organization. This is being used by the set of technicians. This feature is being used when the particular device is going to be handled by other individuals. Usually, when a device is going to be used by some individual, there must be some limitations. The administrator account can do the same. If the administrator changes something in the device & provided a password for that. Then the only administrator can handle that. This feature is often used in the school computer lab also. There is some restriction made to the computers. So, the students can never do such restricted actions by the computers.

Use an Answer File:

You can enable the built-in Administrator account during unattended installations by setting the AutoLogon setting to Administrator in the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup component. This will enable the built-in admin account, even if no password is specified in the admin password setting. You can use Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM) included in the Assessment and Deployment Kit to create an answer file. The following sample response file shows how to enable the administrator account, provide the administrator password, and automatically log on to the system. The Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup\Autologon section and the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup\UserAccounts\AdministratorPassword section are required for automatic login in test mode to work. The Audit System configuration tag must include these two parameters.

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" 
processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" 
language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:
wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 
xmlns:xsi="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org">
    <AutoLogon>
        <Password>
        <Value>SecurePasswd123</Value> 
        <PlainText>true</PlainText> 
        </Password>
        <Username>Administrator</Username> 
        <Enabled>true</Enabled> 
        <LogonCount>5</LogonCount> 
    </AutoLogon>
    <UserAccounts>
        <AdministratorPassword>
        <Value>SecurePasswd123</Value> 
        <PlainText>true</PlainText> 
        </AdministratorPassword>
    </UserAccounts>
</component>

Windows Administrator Account:

Start Windows in Safe mode to log on with the local Administrator account that has been disabled. You can still log on as Administrator in Safe mode even if the Administrator account is disabled. Reactivate the Administrator account after successfully logging on in Safe mode, and then log on once again. Follow these steps to accomplish this:

Step 1: At first, we have to open the Command Prompt in the administrator format. There we need to execute the following command. This command will help to start the Windows Administrator Account on the machine.

Command: net user administrator /activate:yes
command prompt

 

Step 2: After performing the operation, we have to log out from the device. Or we can restart the device. There when the machine is restarted, we can see the Lock Screen of the Windows. There at the bottom of the left-hand side of the screen, we can find the Administrator account. So, if we wish we can enter through the administrator account.

account manager on windows

 

Note: Initially, the device will not ask for any password for the Administrator account. Later when users enter as Administrator, they need to develop the administrator account there. After that, it will ask for the password every time when they try to enter as an administrator.

Disabling Windows Administrator Account:

Step 1: To disable the Windows Administrator Account, first, we need to log in to the device with the normal account. 

Step 2: There we need to run the Command Prompt in the administrator format. 

 

Step 3: There we need to execute the below command. This command will stop the administrator account on the device. So, there will not be any administrator account on the Lock Screen of the device.

Command: net user administrator /activate:no
command prompt

 

Using the Recovery Console:

Even if the local Administrator account is disabled, you can still log in to the computer using the recovery console. You can still access the recovery console as an Administrator if you disable the local Administrator account.


Last Updated : 16 Mar, 2023
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