You can enable the built-in Administrator account during unattended installations by setting the AutoLogon setting to Administrator in the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup component. This will enable the built-in Administrator account, even if a password is not specified in the AdministratorPassword setting.
How to enable built-in administrator account
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To prevent having to enter a password for the built-in Administrator account after you complete the out-of-box experience, set Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup\UserAccounts\AdministratorPassword in the oobeSystem configuration pass.
If the computer has not yet gone through Out-Of-Box Experience (OOBE), you can enter the built-in Administrator account by re-entering audit mode. For more information, see Boot Windows to Audit Mode or OOBE.
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system builders are required to disable the built-in administrator account before delivering the computers to customers. To do this, you can use either of the following methods.
When you run the sysprep /generalize command, Sysprep resets the built-in Administrator account password. The Sysprep tool only clears the built-in Administrator account's password for server editions, not for client editions. The next time that the computer starts, Setup displays a prompt for a password.
By default, Windows users belong to the Administrators group as local accounts with administrative privileges and can obtain administrator privileges. If you are not sure which user account you have, check or change it as follows:
To enable Windows 10 Administrator accounts in Windows 10 without administrator privileges, you need to contact administrators who can perform administrator tasks or change your privileges. However, if you are an administrator and forget the administrator password or lose your account access, an alternative route might be needed. This happens via the supplied Windows disc. In this case, it is recommended to contact IT specialists to avoid system damage.
To change the administrator name, use the Win+R keyboard shortcut to open the Run dialog box. Type secpol.msc and choose OK. Go to Local Policies > Security Options > double-click Accounts: Rename administrator account > enter a new name > OK.
This account was necessary in the Windows XP era and earlier, but it's not needed in the current Windows design and is disabled by default to reduce the attack surface on a Windows PC. During Setup, the first account you create is a local administrator and can be used for recovery purposes.
If you need to sign on to Windows from Safe Mode or the Recovery Environment, you can use the primary user account, which is a member of the local administrators group. If you unintentionally demote, delete, or disable the last local administrator account, you can sign on in Safe Mode using the disabled Administrator account.
To enable this account, open an elevated Command Prompt window and issue two commands. First, type net user administrator /active:yes and press Enter. Then type net user administrator , where is the actual password you want to use for this account.
Since we replaced the utilman.exe with cmd.exe, a Command Prompt should open now.At the Command Prompt, type the following command to activate the built-in Administrator account:net user Administrator /active:yes
Windows 11 includes a built-in administrator account that allows the computer manufacturers to install apps without creating a user account. For general users, however, the account is hidden by default to prevent unauthorized access.
You can change your existing account type to have administrative rights. However, the built-in administrator account comes with elevated rights out of the box. Which means you can make changes to your PC without being bothered by the User Account Control (UAC) prompt.
To sign in to the built-in administrator account, press Win + L to view the lock screen. Then, click on the Administrator account to login.Related: Windows Command Prompt (CMD) Commands You Must Know
If you are a system administrator, you can use the Security Policy snap-in to enable or disable the administrator account. It is a handy utility designed to manage security policy settings in Windows.
how about from local account(no administrator account) to add new administrator account because annoying user account control popping up and I need to update windows 10 to 1903 update and delete some apps that requires administrator account so help me to add new administrator account (using local account now)Thanks
You have now full access to the Windows 8 computer. Secure the data for the Microsoft account for which you lost the password and create a new account. After you are done, I strongly recommend disabling the administrator account again: net user administrator /active:no.Subscribe to 4sysops newsletter!Enable the built-in administrator account in the RegistryBoot from the Windows 8 boot media.
After Windows 8 setup started press SHIFT+F10 to access a command prompt.
Type regedit and click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Click the File menu and then Load Hive.
Load the SAM file from D:\windows\system32\config.
Enter a key name (for example, myKey).
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\myKey\SAM\Domains\Users\000001F4.
Right-click the F key and select Modify.
Navigate to position 0038 right before the value 11.
Press DEL, type 10, and click OK.
Click the myKey hive, click the File menu, click Unload Hive, and confirm the unloading of the hive.
The result is the same as with method 1. After you reboot, you can log on with the administrator account; no password is required. To disable the administrator account, type net user administrator /active:no at a command prompt with admin rights.
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In my last my post I described how to offline edit the Registry of a Windows installation through Windows PE or Windows RE. Today, I will give you the procedure to offline enable the built-in administrator account. This can be useful when you have to reset the password of the administrator account without having admin privileges on this machine.
I tried the procedure described here on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I suppose it also works on Windows XP. However, in Windows XP you can just boot up in Safe Mode (press F8 before Windows starts booting) and log on with the built-in administrator account even it is disabled. Because an administrator password has to be configured when Windows XP is installed, the Safe Mode procedure will only help if you have at least this password.
Once you enable the administrator account, you can use this account to log on to this Windows installation. This works because, by default, the built-in administrator account is configured with an empty password in Vista and Windows 7. Of course, if you configured an administrator password (which I recommended in my article about the built-in administrator account), this procedure is useless if you have also forgotten this password or if a user has set the password and didn't tell you about it.
After you reboot, you can log on using the built-in administrator and reset the password of other accounts.Subscribe to 4sysops newsletter!Note that you can also use this procedure to offline enable other accounts with administrator privileges. In this case, the value at position 0038 will be "15" if the account is disabled; replace it with"14" to enable the account.
As in previous versions of the OS, in Windows 10 there is a hidden built-in Administrator account, hidden and inactive by default. However, in some situations it may be useful, for example, if it is impossible to perform any actions with a computer and create a new user, to reset the password and not only. Sometimes, on the contrary, you want to disable this account. 2ff7e9595c
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