Enable/ Unlock the hidden Administrator account in Vista

In previous versions of Windows there is the option to log on as the admin account. However this doesn’t seem to be an option in Vista unless you use this little trick that I found.
imageFirst, go to start and in the search box type cmd (this will bring up command prompt, now don’t double click it yet because we want to run it as a administrator, to do this right click on cmd.exe and choose ‘run as administrator’.) As shown in the picture.
NOTE: If you have UAC (User Account Control) active then you will be shown a notification, just click continue.
2) Now that the command prompt window is open, type the following, –
“ net user administrator /active:yes ” (without quotation marks)
If you got to Start> Control Panel > User Accounts > then click on ‘manage other accounts’, you will now see the Administrator account.
If you no longer want it you can follow the steps above but instead type – “net user administrator /active:no” (without quotation marks). If you go to Control Panel and user accounts you will notice it is no longer there.
Thanks for reading.

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