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Bram Naus
Hi,
Anyone knows how to change a normal user to a rootadmin in Vista Ultimate?
Thx,
Bram
Anyone knows how to change a normal user to a rootadmin in Vista Ultimate?
Thx,
Bram
Bram Naus said:Hi,
Anyone knows how to change a normal user to a rootadmin in Vista Ultimate?
Thx,
Bram
Mike Brannigan said:There is no such thing as rootadmin (this is not Unix or Linux)
Open the Help and Support and type in Administrator
The answer you seek is there (on my PC it is item 10 Change a user's
account
type)
Angry_American said:Actually there is and its a hidden account. To unhide do the following:
First, open an elevated command prompt by typing cmd into the Search box
on the Start menu, right-clicking the command prompt icon that appears at
the top of the Start menu, then selecting Run as administrator.
Then enter this command and press Enter:
Net user administrator /active:yes
To undo or hide the account:
Net user administrator /active:no
The major caveat is this is a Super Admin account, and should be used only
for admin duties, it should never be used for day to day usage.
Dan
Mike Brannigan said:No Dan that is the Administrator account and not rootadmin (but that is
not the issue with your answer).
We are all (hopefully) aware of the default Administrator account and the
fact that it is disabled by default.
However the original posters question however badly phrased with their
obvious Unix background was about how to make another users account an
administrative level account, which has little to do with enabling the
default Administrator account.
" ... Anyone knows how to change a normal user to a rootadmin in Vista
Ultimate? ..."
Angry_American said:This is the windows equivalent of a root account in the nix environment.
Full control of all files, folders, and processes without permission
prompts.
Dan