Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable

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"."

fabfisc said:

...[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

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"...

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

I edited and correct it.

Many thanks

Option 1 work Good. No Error

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