There are several ways to access the hidden administrator account. In this article we will show you how to both enable and disable the administrator account in Windows. Access a hidden administrator ...

When reading through guides about how to harden earlier versions of Windows, one of the recommended courses of action is to rename the Administrator account to slow down potential hackers. In Windows ...

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In a situation when you have multiple users in your Windows 11/10 PC at home or office, where a Windows User Account needs to be disabled because of a security reason or because that particular user ...

Managing user accounts helps to ensure only authorized parties have access to your company's computers. Windows XP has a dedicated Users panel via which you can delete unnecessary administrator ...

In early June, Computerworld published the story, “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.” At the bottom of page 5 of that story, I wrote that the built-in Administrator account is ...

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I was investigating a possible open relay on our Xserve (Mac OS X 10.5.9) and did a "select all" and disable in our Open Directory domain. This disabled the open directory administrator account (oops!