vista superadmin account (the real admin account)

[offshoreposer]

hey guy's just going a google search on how to hack with vista and found somthing i think you all mite like.

here it is:

Unlock the supersecret Administrator account

Deep inside the bowels of Windows Vista, there's a secret Administrator account, and it's different from the normal administrator account you most likely have set up on your PC. This Administrator account is not part of the Administrator group. (Confused yet? You should be.) It's a kind of superadministrator, akin to the root account in Unix, and by default it's turned off and hidden. (In describing this hack, we'll always use the capital "A" for the secret Administrator account, and a lowercase "a" for a normal administrator account.)

In versions of Windows before Windows Vista, the Administrator account wasn't hidden, and many people used it as their main or only account. This Administrator account had full rights over the computer.

In Windows Vista, Microsoft changed that. In Vista, the Administrator account is not subject to UAC, but normal administrator accounts are. So the Administrator can make any changes to the system and will see no UAC prompts.

Turning on the Administrator account is straightforward. First, open an elevated command prompt by typing cmd into the Search box on the Start menu, right-clicking the command prompt icon that appears at the top of the Start menu, then selecting Run as administrator -- or just use the shortcut you created in the previous hack.

Then enter this command and press Enter:

Net user administrator /active:yes

From now on, the Administrator account will appear as an option on the Welcome screen, along with any user accounts you may have set up. Use it like any other account. Be aware that it won't have a password yet, so it's a good idea to set a password for it.

If you want to disable the account and hide it, enter this command at an elevated command prompt and press Enter:

Net user administrator /active:no

thanks for reading OSP

[DNR]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555910
says the same thing.

If you don't do it with cmd.exe under 'run as admin' you'll get a "system error 5"

DNR

[bozotheclown138]

ah nice post i've been wondering about this a little while now

[offshoreposer]

microsoft are getting propa sneeky

[lilrofl]

good knowledge, thanks! I don't use Vista, but I know plenty of people who do so this may come in useful in some future r another =)

[IceDane]

I lol'd heartily at the fact that you claim this administrator is some kind of "super admin", and "akin to root". Root is absolutely and completely all powerful. It can, if the drivers support it doing things that can push hardware to that point, ruin hardware.

This administrator account is simply .. the administrator account. The default one. It isn't enabled in Vista by default for security reasons. You also start by creating an account that's an administrator when you set up the operating system, so this account is more or less useless unless you want an extra account active on your system. But then again, creating a normal account that has administrator privileges will do the same thing..

And oh..

>net localgroup administrators
Alias name administrators
Comment Administrators have complete and unrestricted access to the compu
ter/domain

Members

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Administrator
Mcx1
*myaccountnameishere*
The command completed successfully.

It isn't a member of the Administrators groups, you say?

Huh.

The only thing that's above an administrator on Windows is the SYSTEM account, and even that account is not even akin to root.

[bozotheclown138]

hey icedane... stop stealing his thunder

[IceDane]

hey icedane... stop stealing his thunder

I dislike the distribution of incorrect information.

[bozotheclown138]

haha

[hpprinter100]

this works on windows 7 aswell

[waringers]

-wow, i knew there was a secret admin account on vista, but i didn't know about this, thanks a lot, it'll sure come in handy.