Making hidden Administrator account visible

[Brian W]

IS there anyway to make the Administrator account visible without using
Computer Management/Local Users and Groups (as this option is not available
in Home Premium) ?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

IS there anyway to make the Administrator account visible without using
Computer Management/Local Users and Groups (as this option is not
available in Home Premium) ?

Brian,

Open elevated command prompt and use following command to enable
Administrator account and set a password on it:

net user Administrator v3ryStr()ngP4$$wOrd /ACTIVE:YES

where "v3ryStr()ngP4$$wOrd" is a password you want to assign to account.

 

[Toby Broom]

you can do it by typing in control userpasswords2 as well.

 

[Brian W]

I installed Home Premium to test yesterday, the Local Users and Groups
option was not available in Computer Management

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Brian,

Add the Administrator account to the Welcome Screen:
1. Press the WinKey + R then type in lusrmgr.msc and press enter
2. Click on Users
3. Right Click on Administrator then Properties
4. Uncheck Account is Disabled
5. Click OK

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

 

[Brian K Lamb]

Hi Bert,

looks like that snapin is disabled under Home Premium...

 

[Bert Kinney]

How about going to Control Panel - Administrator Tools - Computer Management
- Local Users and Groups - Users and right click on Administrator.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

 

[Brian W]

How about going to Control Panel - Administrator Tools - Computer
Management - Local Users and Groups - Users and right click on
Administrator.

Local Users and Groups setting is not available in Premium, as I said in my
original post. But never mind, it's working now using the command line
method described here recently by Alexander Suhovey.