Requirements: In order to apply the steps below, you have to sign in to Windows using an account with Administrative privileges. How to Enable OR Disable Administrator Account from Command Prompt. This tutorial contains detailed instructions on how to Enable or Disable the hidden Administrator account in Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 & Vista OS.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to enable the Administrator account for such cases.

The best practice according to my experience is to create another account with Administrative rights and leave the Administrator account disabled. But, in some cases, we need to enable the Administrator account, because some tasks require Administrative privileges to be executed. some virus and malicious programs use the Administrator account to infect your computer). This has been done for security reasons (e.g. Microsoft’s last two operating systems Windows 8 and Windows 7 are shipped with an Administrator account that is disabled by default.