Enable/ Disable the Hidden Administrator User Account (Windows 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista)

Trouble · Mar 23, 2013

re: Enable/ Disable the Hidden Administrator User Account (Windows 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista)

Just a quick edit to the code snippet in the second box and it'll be perfect.
And then maybe delete this post as well to clean things up.
Thanks
Randy

jcgriff2 · Mar 23, 2013

re: Enable/ Disable the Hidden Administrator User Account (Windows 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista)

Trouble said:
Just a quick edit to the code snippet in the second box and it'll be perfect.
And then maybe delete this post as well to clean things up.
Thanks
Randy

Thank you, Randy -- typo fixed.

A few others sent me PMs -- seems I may have been the only one to have missed that rather very obvious typo.

The old saying "... a second pair of eyes. .. ." certainly is alive & well.

THANK YOU !

John

SIM · Jan 19, 2014

re: Enable/ Disable the Hidden Administrator User Account (Windows 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista)

Option 2: DEACTIVATE the hidden administrator account.
... Then what?
I have done as demonstrated, restarted and am now locked out completely with the start up screen displaying not one account, as it used to, but TWO! The main is still called Administrator and wants me to reset a password, but I can't. The second is a guest account and also wants me to input password even though I had no passwords active before I tried to remove the hidden admin account.
Please advise.

jcgriff2 · Jan 21, 2014

re: Enable/ Disable the Hidden Administrator User Account (Windows 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista)

Boot into Recovery using your Windows DVD or the HDD recovery partition and run "Windows System Restore".

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

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