Activate or Disable Admin account from Command Prompt

Sometimes administrator account are disabled by the companies and colleges to prevent unauthorized access in the computer. Usually it is protected by some password credential. If it is not password protected then you can easily activate it and use it. But you must have admin privileges to open command prompt as an administrator.

Administrator account is very helpful to keep an eye on the other accounts in your computer. You can apply any kind of security on the other accounts to limit the access on the computer or on the internet.

If you have administrator account in your possession then you have the entire leverage to do what do you want to do e.g downloading, net surfing, user's account management and so on.

If your account has some admin privileges to open command prompt as an administrator then you can easily activate or deactivate admin account.
Sometimes you have an Admin account but there will always be a major admin account with other accounts and this account will have all kind of privileges.

So to Activate or Disable Admin account from Command Prompt you need to follow these steps.

Step 1. Open Command prompt as an Administrator or go to start and type cmd right click on command prompt and choose run as administrator.

Step 2. After opening command prompt just type net users and press Enter. It will show you all the users and administrators accounts. Major Administrator account will always be the first account.

Step 3. Now type net users Administrator /active:yes and press Enter

Note : Mind the gap or space between net, users, Administrator and /active:yes .

If you want to deactivate or disable Administrator account then simply type the following command.
Type net users Administrator /active:no

So this easy and small command learn you, How to Activate or Disable Admin account from Command Prompt ? It is quite easy and very handy for computer geeks. Keep learning the power of the Command Prompt in the previous and next chapters.