Making hidden Administrator account visible

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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!
 
Brian W said:
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) ?
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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.
 
I installed Home Premium to test yesterday, the Local Users and Groups
option was not available in Computer Management
 
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
 
Bert Kinney said:
How about going to Control Panel - Administrator Tools - Computer
Management - Local Users and Groups - Users and right click on
Administrator.
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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.
 
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