Windows 7: Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable

Brink · 01 Apr 2015

See: https://www.sevenforums.com/3036855-post266.html

fabfisc · 02 Apr 2015

That's what your link says:

"If you like, you could use the same command in a .bat file. You would just need to right click on the .bat file and click on "Run as administrator"."

Pyprohly · 02 Apr 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by fabfisc

...[I] need a script (better if vbs) to do that as i manage many new notebooks to initialize (for first time) and then enable the admin account.

Hi Fabfisc,

The below batch script will enable the Administrator account if the account is disabled, and vice versa.

Code:

@net session >NUL 2>&1||powershell Start-Process '%0' -Verb RunAs>NUL&&exit /b|| exit /b
@net user Administrator|find "active"|find "Yes">NUL&&( net user Administrator /active:no&&echo The Administrator account is now Disabled. )||( net user Administrator /active:yes&&echo The Administrator account is now Enabled. )
@timeout 2 >NUL & rem tsdiscon

And a VBScript translate of the above,

Code:

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
If Not objShell.Run("Net Session",0,True) = 0 Then
	CreateObject("Shell.Application").ShellExecute "WScript.exe", WScript.ScriptFullName,"","RunAs",1
	WScript.Quit
End If

If objShell.Run("cmd /c ""Net User Administrator|Find ""active""|Find ""Yes""""", 0, True) = 0 Then
	objShell.Run "Net User Administrator /Active:No", 0, True
	objShell.Popup "The Administrator account is now Disabled.", 1.5, "Success", 64
Else
	objShell.Run "Net User Administrator /Active:Yes", 0, True
	objShell.Popup "The Administrator account is now Enabled.", 1.5, "Success", 64
End If

rem WScript.Sleep 2000 : objShell.Run "tsdiscon", 0, True

fabfisc · 02 Apr 2015

It seems that when i run both scripts, i receive the same result:

"The Administrator account is now Enabled."

All that even if i see (by typing "net use administrator") the referred value of variable "Enable account" set to "Yes"

It seems that the second time i run the script it doesn't see the value "Yes"...

fabfisc · 02 Apr 2015

Half solved!

Here is the correct script for the vbs part:

Quote:

Dim WshShell : set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

If WshShell.Run("cmd /c ""Net User Administrator|Find ""attivo""|Find ""Sì""""", 0, True) = 0 Then
WshShell.Run "Net User Administrator /active:No", 0, True
WshShell.Popup "The Administrator account is now Disabled.", 1.5, "Success", 64
Else
WshShell.Run "Net User Administrator /active:Yes", 0, True
WshShell.Popup "The Administrator account is now Enabled.", 1.5, "Success", 64
End If

Trying to find the right way to do the same via .cmd (for now, it always returns "The Administrator account is now Enabled."

Pyprohly · 02 Apr 2015

Ah. Silly me. I didn't take your country flag into account, Fabfisc.

So here is what the Italian verson for the batch (.bat|.cmd) version of the enable/disable Administrator script would look like.

Code:

@net session >NUL 2>&1||powershell Start-Process '%0' -Verb RunAs>NUL&&exit /b|| exit /b
@net user Administrator|find "attivo"|find "Si">NUL&&( net user Administrator /active:no&&echo The Administrator account is now Disabled. )||( net user Administrator /active:yes&&echo The Administrator account is now Enabled. )
@timeout 2 >NUL & rem tsdiscon

By the way, in your VBScript, Fabfisc, you seem to have assigned to a variable retcode but you never use it. Please do something about it, it's making me cringe

.

fabfisc · 03 Apr 2015

Yep, i though i removed that line, it was only for test.

I edited and correct it.

Many thanks

thuanphat2015 · 22 May 2015

Option 1 work Good.

No Error

phantom7 · 10 Nov 2016

Quote:

NOTE: This option can be used in all editions of Windows 7.

I tried this on my wife's laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium and it did not work. I don't see "Accessories" in her "all programs" list, but did search for "cmd" and it came up with cmd.exe. I right clicked it and chose run as administrator and the net use command produced an error message instead. Her account is an admin account, but I know she needs an elevated admin account. This just didn't work for her. Any ideas?

TIA,
S

Brink · 10 Nov 2016

Hello S,

Please go ahead and post a screenshot showing the command prompt after running the command to see what it says to see what may be wrong.