How to show Administrator Account on Windows 7 login screen

January 7, 2010 · Posted in Win7, Windows 

Every version of Windows, it will come with a built-in Administrator Account. The built-in Administrator account is an account that has full access and permission on the computer. By default, the built-in administrator account is not activate and hidden.

In Windows 7,   if we want to show built-in Administrator Account on login Screen. How to do that?

Below are the steps to show your how to activate built-in Administrator Account: -

In order to login as a administrator, you will first have to activate the “hidden” administrator account.

  • Click on Start button and key in cmd into the search field
  • Right click on the command prompt and select “Run as Administrator”.(You need to run as Administrator to have administrator privileges)

Run CMD

  • Enter the following line into the command line prompt:

net user administrator /active:yes

enable

  • Now you will able to see the built-in Administrator Account appear on your login screen.

If you want to disable the built-in Administrator Account appear on your login screen. You just need to enter the following command to de-activate it

net user administrator /active:no

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