Unlock The Supersecret Administrator Account For Vista

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Deep inside the bowels of Windows Vista, there’s a secret Administrator account, and it’s different from the normal administrator account you most likely have set up on your PC. This Administrator account is not part of the Administrator group. (Confused yet? You should be.) It’s a kind of superadministrator, akin to the root account in Unix, and by default it’s turned off and hidden. (In describing this tut, i’ll always use the capital “A” for the secret Administrator account, and a lowercase “a” for a normal administrator account.)

In versions of Windows before Windows Vista, the Administrator account wasn’t hidden, and many people used it as their main or only account. This Administrator account had full rights over the computer.

In Windows Vista, Microsoft changed that. In Vista, the Administrator account is not subject to UAC, but normal administrator accounts are. So the Administrator can make any changes to the system and will see no UAC prompts.

Turning on the Administrator account is straightforward. 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 — or just use the shortcut you created in the previous hack.

Then enter this command and press Enter:

Net user administrator /active:yes

From now on, the Administrator account will appear as an option on the Welcome screen, along with any user accounts you may have set up. Use it like any other account. Be aware that it won’t have a password yet, so it’s a good idea to set a password for it.

If you want to disable the account and hide it, enter this command at an elevated command prompt and press Enter:

Net user administrator /active:no
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[Mutter]

Thnx. Good to know if I ever have to use that crappy program...

 

[adisolar]

Good post, and yes there is such an account.
However, I strongly recomment not to use it because of security implications.
You see, when you are logged on with a "regular" user, your credentials token is "floating" in main system memory as long as you are logged in. So if an attacker / malicious script chooses to impersonate the authenticated, logged in user (you) and install or make chages - you will be open to attacks because of lack of warning and confirmation messages that usually pop up when ever a change is about to be made that requires additional authorization, if you use the super admin account.
FYI