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Windows x includes a built-in Ambassador account that, by default, is hidden and disabled for security reasons. Sometimes, you need to perform a chip of Windows management or troubleshooting or make changes to your business relationship that requires administrator access. For these reasons, you can enable the Administrator account and then disable it when yous're finished.

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How to enable the Windows 10 Administrator account using the command prompt

Enabling the Administrator account using the command prompt is the quickest and easiest method.

    1. Open a command prompt as an ambassador past typing cmd in the search field.
    2. From the results, correct-click the entry for Command Prompt, and select Run as Ambassador.
    3. At the command prompt, type cyberspace user administrator. The value for Account Active should say No (Figure A).

Figure A

Windows 10 Admin account FigA

  1. Blazon cyberspace user administrator /active:yes. You should receive a response that the control completed successfully.
  2. Type internet user administrator. The value for Account Agile should at present say Aye (Figure B).

Figure B

Windows 10 Admin account FigB

How to enable the Windows 10 Administrator account through the user direction tool

    1. Open up Authoritative Tools, either through the Offset menu or through Control Panel.
    2. Select the entry for Calculator Management, and open the folder for Local Users And Groups. (A quicker style to go here is to blazon lusrmgr.msc in the Search field.)
    3. Open the folder for Users, and double-click the Administrator account.
    4. Uncheck the option for Business relationship Is Disabled, and click OK or Employ (Figure C).

Figure C

Windows 10 Admin account FigC

  1. Shut the User Management window.
  2. With the account enabled, log out.
  3. Go past the Lock screen, and sign in using the Administrator account. No password is required. You tin then perform whatever management or troubleshooting you need to accomplish.

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How to disable the Windows x Ambassador account using the command prompt

When you've completed your management or troubleshooting tasks, you'll desire to disable the Ambassador account. To do so, follow these steps.

  1. Log out, and then log back in using your own account.
  2. Open a control prompt every bit an administrator, and type net user administrator to ostend that the account is active.
  3. Type net user administrator /active: no, then type net user administrator again to confirm that the account is at present inactive (Effigy D).

Figure D

Windows 10 Admin account FigD

How to disable the Windows ten Administrator account through the user management tool

  1. Return to the Local Users And Groups window, and double-click the Ambassador account.
  2. Check the box for Business relationship Is Disabled.
  3. Click OK or Utilise, and close the User Management window (Figure East).

Figure E

Windows 10 Admin account FigE