13Feb/080
Excellent CNET Tip: Unhide Vista’s Administrator Account
I noticed this while beta-testing Windows Vista but never did anything about it: Windows Vista doesn't let you enable the Administrator account from a simple GUI the way Windows XP does.
Enable Vista's hidden administrator, and password-protect its XP equivalent
The trick is to run the CMD command line window as Administrator (right click on the item in the Start menu), then use the net command as the CNET article describes. Every Windows user should have a separate standby account to use in case your main account is messed up somehow.
- Right-click on Command Prompt (or Run) in Start Menu and choose option to Run as Administrator
- Type the following in the Command Prompt text window: net user administrator /active:yes