Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Activating the hidden admin account (Windows 7)

Goto “Start” and enter “cmd”. Do not just hit enter. Hold CTRL + Shift and hit Enter! That’s the shortcut to run this as an admin.

Enter the following command:
net user administrator /active:yes
This will activate the hidden admin account.


Switch Users
Simply switch the user account now (Start – select from pulldown menu “shutdown” -> “switch users”.) and you will see the admin account!
Click on the admin icon to switch to that user. Once you are logged in you can disable your firewall and more.

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