Administrator Account in Windows XP

In every installation of Windows XP, there are built-in and default accounts like Guest, HelpAssistant and Administrator. The Administrator account is equivalent to super user. If you have set up another user account in Windows XP as Administrator then default Administrator account will be hidden and invisible.

Unhide Administrator Account:

To see the Administrator account, you have to boot the Windows in Safe Mode or you can modify the Windows registry so that the Administrator account will be shown at Windows Welcome screen.

• Launch Registry Editor.
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts \UserList in the Registry Editor.
• Double-click the Administrator key in the right pane.
• If the Administrator key doesn’t exist, right-click on the above tree in the pane, choose New, DWORD Value, name it Administrator.
• Type 1 in the “Value data” box for unhide Administrator account. (set 0 to make Administrator hidden)

On the next boot, the Administrator account will be visible on the Welcome screen, along with all of the computer’s user accounts.

Back door login through default Administrator account:

Suppose you’ve an account with administrator rights and assigned a Password for same but, you missed/forgot its Password or there is a computer with Password protected user account and you want unauthorized login on same. Then just boot that computer and wait Windows XP welcome login screen. Now just hit Ctrl+Alt+Del twice and you will get a new window named “Log on to Windows” with Username and Password option. Type ‘Administrator’ as Username and leave blank as Password and hit enter. You can log on to anyone’s Password protected computer with this trick.

Change Password without knowing old password:

You can make fool/worry to your friend through this trick. Suppose you’re logged in your friend’s computer with his/her Password protected account which Password is hidden for you and you don’t know real Password. Just make a trick to erase or reset that Password with following simple steps in MS-DOS prompt.

Open Windows command prompt then type “net user (account name) *” without quotation marks then hit enter key. It will ask ‘Type a password for the user’ leave it blank or type a new Password then press enter. It will ask ‘Retype the password to confirm’, just repeat what you typed as ‘Type a password for the user’ and hit enter key. Well, you can successfully change Password with this trick without knowing old password. Please refer following real screen shot.