Where is the Administrator account in Windows 7?
Did you install Windows 7 yet? Have you tried to access the Administrator account? I installed Windows 7 yesterday, and after I had most of the apps reinstalled and my data restored, I wanted to ensure I had multiple accounts that I could use. You know, just in case the profile is corrupt and you can’t log in to your primary account? What? That’s never happened to you? Consider yourself fortunate. OK, so where is the Administrator account in Windows 7? It’s there, but I believe not active. I had to make the account active to actually see the account to use it. It wasn’t available in Users, and when I tried to create one, it said it already existed. So, how to unhide the account?
Here’s what I had to do. Run the Command Prompt as an administrator. Start, All Programs, Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt, select “Run As Administrator”. Once the command prompt opens, type net user administrator /active:yes and press enter.
You should see an entry similar to the following:
Once that’s done, close the window, restart the computer and you should now see a log in icon for the Administrator account.