Your Administrator account has now been renamed to the one you entered. In order to make changes to your computer's accounts, you must have administrator privileges. Saved me a lot of time and unnecessary stress. Administrator - An unelevated administrator account that has complete access to the computer and can make any desired changes such as running Elevated Command Prompt, for other accounts. Hi, I've read the forums and i've seen a lot of similar posts to this one and for this I am sorry.
The built-in Administrator account is now renamed. Either restart or sign out of the current session to reflect the changes. Rename the file if it will let you by just adding another character to the name. A registry hack is required to fix. To sum up, we have introduced 3 methods for you to change a user account type in Windows 7.
You will also lose your current theme which you should backup as well if you want to continue using it. Part 1: Difference among Guests, Standard user and Administrator in Windows 7 Guests - A guest account allows people to have temporary access to your computer. My computer is two weeks old and the operating system Windows 7 Professional 64-bit was installed by the retailer where I purchased the computer. This new window is called GodMode because it puts all aspects of the management of Windows at your fingertips in one location. I assume if I wanted to rename administrator to swarfega and my standard user was already called swarfega, id have to rename that first. Lo and behold, I could rename Kevin! Do you or anyone have any pointers for me to check up on, like particular keys or files to look at to determine what is wrong so that I can fix it? Click on Start, then Control Panel. Expand the System Tools folder, then the Local Users and Groups folder, and finally single-click on the Users folder so it becomes highlighted.
If you have not already, you will need to. This normal administrator account is not the same as the though. This is a perfectly manual method to reset any windows administrator password in Windows 7 in less than a minute. Set the View by option to Large icons and then click User Accounts. To start a Command Prompt you simply need to type cmd.
A word of caution, if you rename your Administrator account and forget the name or the password, then it can be quite difficult regaining access to the account. For me it worked this way at Windows 7 Pro 64bit, no issues so far. To do this, click on the Start button and then right-click on the Computer option and select Properties as shown in the image below. You will notice that the account name is now displaying the new name. This option will also rename the built-in Administrator account's name displayed on the log on screen and Start Menu. If prompted by , then click on Yes. If you are able to log in your computer with built-in administrator account or other available admin account, Windows password reset can be very simple for you.
Considering the potential this account has, the Administrator account is one of the most targeted accounts by hackers using the malware, trojans and virus. Will definitely have to try this on a trial machine. All other programs have been closed. Left-click on the Manage option and skip to step 2. See screenshot below step 2 6.
Simply type in the name that you would like to rename the Administrator account to and press Enter on your keyboard. Highlight the account you want to change the type of under Group and then click on the Properties button. In my opinion, you should leave the Administrator account disabled, but as there have been many requests for this information, I. But, at least in my case, the risk is not worth the effort. If your computer is joined to Indiana University's Active Directory These instructions are for changing passwords for accounts residing directly on your computer, not for Active Directory passwords. Her name is displayed correctly i.
Basic information about your computer screen Write down your computer name as you will need it in a future step. Please to minimise your time spent on this post, please reccomend any alternative methods and state their advantages and differences from the original built in administrator. No solution or even acknowledgement of the issue provided by Microsoft. In our environment we have the Administrator account enabled. G ive the existing account the desired new name. For example if we are using the computer name from the screen above and wanted to change the Administrator account to Super-Admin, we would type the following and press Enter on the keyboard.
A window will appear, called the Command Prompt, that will open in your user profile. If you are not already in Category View, in the upper left, click Category View. Set the administrator password Universal steps These steps work in every case as long as you're able to log in as an administrator. You should update the instructions to reflect this. Once I completed the password set up I restarted my computer to see if my password will work. But, at least in my case, the risk is not worth the effort. Martin Brinkmann shows us in this article how to actually change the name of both the user account and the profile folder.
Much better to start your own account. The built-in administrator account is one of the most Windows accounts targeted by attackers. Click on it or press Enter. Renaming the user folder Open Windows Explorer or another file browser and open the users folder that you want to rename on the main drive. Recently I restored it to a previous state, so I decided to create a password for my admin account.