How to activate the Administrator account in Vista

There is one major security loophole in Windows XP that most users ignore, which can allow an intruder to login to your computer easily. If you dont know about it, I might as well tell you. Try it on your friends computer and they will be amazed how you did it.

When XP starts up and you see the login screen, press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice. This will give you the old windows 2000 login screen. Type the username as Administrator and leave the password field blank. Click OK and you should be logged into Windows, you can now remove the password of any other users on the computer !

Now for the Vista part.

Vista has a hidden super user account but is not activated by default like XP. So why use this administrator account ? You will never be shown the irritating UAC dialog box.

How to activate the Administrator account in Vista

1. Login to your account in Vista

2. Right click the command prompt and select “Run as administrator”
(Start > All Programs > Accessories > right click Command Prompt > Choose run as Administrator)

3. Type Net user administrator anypassword

4. Type Net user administrator activate:yes

5. Logoff

6. Logon as the administrator with the password you set in step 3

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The XP administrator trick does not work anymore may be it worked before SP2…!!

Comment by Bedoon Esam on February 19, 2008 @ 5:43 pm

Great tips Alfred. I will def try them on my new dell XPS

Comment by ntas on February 21, 2008 @ 8:49 pm

thanks for the information

Nice piece

Keep it up

Comment by Web Design on March 8, 2008 @ 3:08 pm

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