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How to Enable Administrator Account in Windows 7

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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

Step-2

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

net user administrator /active:yes

Step-3

Now logout and see the administrator account is available

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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Posted in: MS Windows, Windows 7 on October 25, 2009

Tags: Administrator Account, Command Prompt, Enable Admin, Windows 7, windows7

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Didi 25 October 2009 at 1:57 pm #

thanks for sharing this tip to enable admin in Windows 7

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Robert Ramberg 25 October 2009 at 2:27 pm #

Woow Windows 7 is also going tricky

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- hiser 8 November 2009 at 10:59 pm #
  
  Windows 7 is awesome
  
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  - Polka 95 12 November 2009 at 5:57 am #
    
    i really don’t know yet
    
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Robert Ramberg 25 October 2009 at 2:28 pm #

Woow Windows 7 is also going to be tricky

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Monica 26 October 2009 at 10:29 am #

nice windows 7 article

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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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Brink 222 27 October 2009 at 5:11 am #

this information is very helpful

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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”

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- 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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Akasa 5 November 2009 at 7:49 pm #

thanx trickYguY yes it works

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Angela 12 November 2009 at 5:56 am #

thanks for windows 7 tips

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- BigGeek 2 June 2010 at 9:06 pm #
  
  Should we enable and use Administrator account?
  
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kukk 16 November 2009 at 4:15 am #

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

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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.

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- trickYguY 8 December 2009 at 2:48 pm #
  
  Run the command prompt as an Administrator privileges, see step-1
  
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antiq 26 December 2009 at 11:36 pm #

thanks for helping me in enabling admin account in Windows 7

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Robert 5 January 2010 at 5:31 am #

very nice and useful windows 7 tips.

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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.

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Holman 15 January 2010 at 8:00 am #

do this works for windows vista?

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- trickYguY 15 January 2010 at 3:58 pm #
  
  Enable admin account Vista http://www.trickyways.com/2008/04/enable-hidden-account-of-administrator-in-windows-vista/
  
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Jasika 24 February 2010 at 1:02 pm #

I enabled admin on windows vista with your instructions.

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- Mark 3 June 2010 at 5:37 am #
  
  In Windows XP Administrator was not hidden you can access it with a trick buy in Windows 7 its not, thanks for helping to enable administrator account.
  
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Paul 24 March 2010 at 1:57 am #

i like your articles and just enabled administrator account in windows vista.

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Ulf 11 April 2010 at 2:55 am #

i enabled administrator in my newly installed Windows 7 thank you

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Ulfat 26 April 2010 at 4:19 pm #

Administrator is enabled, greate guys

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foc 8 November 2009 at 11:58 pm #

it works! thanks.

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