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How to Enable Administrator Account on Windows

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First of all, please open a cmd dialog in elevated mode, you may check the following post to see the tutorial:
How to Open Command Prompts with Administrator Privileges (Elevated Mode) on Windows
  1. Activate (enable) administrator account.
  2. We should check the account status first.
    C:Windowssystem32>net user administrator
    User name                    Administrator
    ...
    Account active               No
    ...

    This account is not active currently. Let's activate it.
    C:Windowssystem32>net user administrator /active:yes
    The command completed successfully.


    C:Windowssystem32>net user administrator
    User name                    Administrator
    ...
    Account active               Yes
    ...

  3. Set the password on this account.
  4. After enabling administrator, you might want to set password on this account. Just do it like this:
    C:Windowssystem32>net user administrator admin_password
    The command completed successfully.

  5. Deactivate (disable) administrator account.
  6. For security reasons, disabling administrator account would be a proper action in system administration. You can just replace "yes" with "no" in the command to inactivate administrator for some reasons.
    C:Windowssystem32>net user administrator /active:no
    The command completed successfully.

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