Can't see Default Admin account

I'm trying to help Glennc with his user acounts and wanted to replicate his problem. This meant enabling the Default Admin user account.I have never had occasion to use this before but ran cmd as administrator and typed "net user administrator /active:yes"
The process finished OK and I rebooted but no Admin account. I have just one account with my name (John). No password so normally boot straight in with no login. Can't get Admin to show.
Must have done something wrong but for the life of me i can't see where>
Any help please!

Hello Mitchell,

Do you have a C:\Users\Administrator folder?

If you log off from the Start Menu instead of restarting, do you have the Administrator log on icon available there?

If you are not getting a log on option at boot for either account, then you might check to see if auto log on may have been turned on for your user account. If so, turning it off should allow both log on icons to be available at startup.


If not, then you might see if you may be able to enable the built-in Administrator account using a different option below instead, and hopefully have the Administrator user folder afterwards.

Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable

Brink said:

Do you have a C:\Users\Administrator folder?
Yes

If you log off from the Start Menu instead of restarting, do you have the Administrator log on icon available there?
No
If you are not getting a log on option at boot for either account, then you might check to see if auto log on may have been turned on for your user account. If so, turning it off should allow both log on icons to be available at startup.
Whether that is checked or not makes no difference, my system boots straight to my account with no Login screen



If not, then you might see if you may be able to enable the built-in Administrator account using a different option below instead, and hopefully have the Administrator user folder afterwards.

Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable
As I have Win 7 Home premium some of the following is not available to me.None of the solutions had the desired effect, and I tried them all where I could. I still cannot see a login in screen!

I have an OEM version so assume the Default Admin account was created when the OS was installed? Thanks for your help so far Brink

Yeah, most OEM installations would have a default normal administrator account setup for you to use. This account is not the built-in Administrator account though.

So I don't think it is possible that I do not have a default admin account, or is it?

I have now set a password for my account so that I get a login screen on bootup. This shows first a message that reads "The user name or password is incorrect" This is before I type the password. I click OK and then get just my User name icon, no other icon for Guest or Admin. I type in the password and system boots up OK but still no sign of the Default Admin. Strange!

Mitchell,

In addition, getting the "The user name or password is incorrect" at startup after you changed your password sounds like you have automatic log in turned on. Check with the tutorial below to make sure it's turned off as well.

Log On Automatically at Startup

That's great news Kerry. Hopefully it will work for Mitchell as well. :)