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Unlock the supersecret Administrator account for vista

Posted by Jason in Windows Vista on July 14th, 2007

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

In versions of before Vista, the Administrator wasn’t hidden, and many people used it as their main or only . This Administrator had full rights over the computer. (more…)