Administrator Account no longer visible in windows 11 or 10:try this one

[oldgeek]

Unfortunately the days when you used to see an administrator account when you turned on your machine have gone. Instead, in place of it, you find the file then right click on it and choose "Run as adminstrator". A quick way around this if you need to work on your machine and not sure what bit of software you need to use in windows (10 and 11) is to create two batch files. To do this you need to run notepad as administrator, enter the following:

cls (clears the screen of dross)
echo Enabling administrator account
echo off
net user administrator /active:yes

To turn it off, change the YES to a NO
Windows will inform you if the command is successful.
Both the Enabling and Disabling batch files have to be save to [Windows/System32] folder

Two things to remember
1. Run the CMD command as adminstrator (this will automatically place you in [Windows/System32] folder.
2. Run notepad as administrator and remember to save both files in the above directory.

If you log off, you will see the Administrator option on your start screen to log in as full administrator. When you turn it off, it will disappear after you have logged out.

The final thing to remember, if you are not familiar with using the administrator account, you could do a lot of harm, DON'T use it. However if you are aware of what you can and cannot do then this is a quick way of getting the account up in your start up window. Once you have done your work, start CMD in admin mode and just type NO to turn it off, and never leve it running if there is anyone else about.

OldGeek

 

[staticaddict]

Open the command prompt and type: net user administrator /active:yes . That will unblock the Administrator account. You can block it by the same command changing the "/active:yes" to /active:no.

 

[oldgeek]

Open the command prompt and type: net user administrator /active:yes . That will unblock the Administrator account. You can block it by the same command changing the "/active:yes" to /active:no.

This is true but have you tried it to see if it gives you the admin account on the start window? In windows 11 this method did not work for me.

OldGeek

 

[staticaddict]

This is true but have you tried it to see if it gives you the admin account on the start window? In windows 11 this method did not work for me.

OldGeek

It should, it works for me every time. Another option would be lusrmgr. The application is in C:\Windows\System32\lusrmgr. That is the other place you can go to enable the admin account.

 

[oldgeek]

Again true but as you can appreciate I was trying to be quick and make it easy. The lusrmgr.msc tends to be a little drawn out and maybe a little confusing for some to use hence, the batch file. Thanks for your insight none-the-less.

OldgGeek