How to Enable Administrator Account in Windows 7

Administrator account in Windows 7 is disabled and hidden by default. To perform some Administrative task you have to enable it. To enable the Administrator account in Windows 7 follow the given steps below.

Step-1

Click on Start menu > Accessories >right click on Command Prompt > Run as Administrator

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Step-2

This will open Command Prompt, copy the following command paste and hit enter

net user administrator /active:yes

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Step-3

Now logout and see the administrator account is available

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To disable Administrator again just put ‘no’ instead of ‘yes’ at the end of the command

net user administrator /active:no

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Comments:

  1. Didi 25 October 2009 at 1:57 pm #

    thanks for sharing this tip to enable admin in Windows 7

  2. Robert Ramberg 25 October 2009 at 2:27 pm #

    Woow Windows 7 is also going tricky

    • hiser 8 November 2009 at 10:59 pm #

      Windows 7 is awesome

      • Polka 95 12 November 2009 at 5:57 am #

        i really don’t know yet

  3. Robert Ramberg 25 October 2009 at 2:28 pm #

    Woow Windows 7 is also going to be tricky

  4. Monica 26 October 2009 at 10:29 am #

    nice windows 7 article

  5. Angela Westin 26 October 2009 at 10:42 am #

    Does it necessary for other Windows operating systems to enable disable administrator like Windows 7?

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  7. Brink 222 27 October 2009 at 5:11 am #

    this information is very helpful

  8. Akasa 27 October 2009 at 5:17 am #

    When I run following command

    net user administrator /active:yes

    I received an error message as

    “System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied”

    • trickYguY 27 October 2009 at 9:12 am #

      You need to Run Command Prompt as Administrator. See step-1 above in the post.

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    • foc 8 November 2009 at 11:58 pm #

      it works! thanks.

  10. Akasa 5 November 2009 at 7:49 pm #

    thanx trickYguY yes it works

  11. Angela 12 November 2009 at 5:56 am #

    thanks for windows 7 tips

  12. kukk 16 November 2009 at 4:15 am #

    just enabled admin account in windows 7..
    thank u guys!

  13. Aftab 8 December 2009 at 12:46 pm #

    i am unable to activate the administrator account. i had enabled it using net user administrator/active:yes and after completing the task i disabled it. however now if i try to eanble using same cmd i get system error 5 access denied, any help will be highly appreciated.

    • trickYguY 8 December 2009 at 2:48 pm #

      Run the command prompt as an Administrator privileges, see step-1

  14. antiq 26 December 2009 at 11:36 pm #

    thanks for helping me in enabling admin account in Windows 7

  15. Robert 5 January 2010 at 5:31 am #

    very nice and useful windows 7 tips.

  16. Marget 9 January 2010 at 6:21 pm #

    thanks a lot, i really don’t know this before that how to enable administrator account in windows 7, the same process works for windows vista.

  17. Holman 15 January 2010 at 8:00 am #

    do this works for windows vista?

  18. Jasika 24 February 2010 at 1:02 pm #

    I enabled admin on windows vista with your instructions.


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