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How to Enable the Administrator Account in Windows

May 18, 2023 — Gregg Szumowski

To activate the Administrator account on Windows, open the Command Prompt as Administrator from the Start Menu, or you can right-click on the "Start" menu and select the "Powershell" menu item, then enter:

net user administrator /active: yes

into the window. You should disable the account again when you're done.

Tags: windows, sysadmin, motd