Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable

Hello Emptysorrows,

I'm not sure if there is, but I wouldn't recommend to mess with it. Are you not able to use the normal method to do so?

That's great news. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. :)

I have a case where it appears that the user has locked himself out.

UAC shows him as an administrator, but he can not carry out any admin tasks and can not make any changes in UAC.

He can see UAC but can not use UAC.

My question is:
If he boots from a system repair disc,
can he then run:
net user administrator /active:yes

to enable the built-in adminstrator account and then be able to create a new admin account which hopefully he will then be able to use.

This appears to be an honest user and he has shown me snippets verifying the problem on his home computer with home premium installed.

Hello Karl,

Yes, he should be able to using this instead though. :)

Built-in Administrator - Enable from WinRE

that tutorial talks of using a 3rd party program that is only for 32bit systems or did I miss something.

For Method 1 yes, but he should be able to use Method 2 to be able to enable it at boot.

I'll give it a try, probably Friday. Must make full system image backup first in case disaster strikes. Don't really like that kind of registry editing. looks like a good place for a .reg file perhaps.

I'm not sure if a REG file would run at boot like that.