Re: What happens to the built-in Administrator Account

Just create new regkey to make the administrator account visible at the user
screen.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t]
"Administrator"=dword:00000001

Set the value to 1 to show it, or 0 to hide it again.

Only thing i don't like about the administrator account is the blank
password. It would be better if a password for it should be entered at
setup. Din't try it, but i guess when i want to connect over network (or
even internet) to an other vista pc, i can just login using the
administrator account with blank password and have full administrative
permissions. So to take no risks i gave it a password as soon vista was
installed.

"Lawrence Ng" <Law_it@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:240D1E13-2340-4038-86D1-2A6161789FAB@microsoft.com...

> Hi guys,
>
> Good day to all.
> Part of the installation of Vista required you to create an account,
> (first account is member of the administrators group). While this is
> perfectly normal, I notice that you cannot logon with the built-in
> administrator account. You are able to use the secondary logon service
> though, as in "runas" to run a program as the administrator. Is this the
> way for Vista as a security implementation or I'm missing something? In
> XP, you hold down the ctrl+alt+DEL key to bring out the logon dialog box
> to login with the hidden built-in administrator account but Vista don't
> allow you to do so. Any suggestion?
>
> Second question would be; does the created administrative account has any
> restriction with comparison to the built-in administrative account? I did
> notice along the way that It prompted me that I do not have the rights to
> perform some action, which gave me the impression that additional
> administrative account do have limitation as compared to the built-in
> administrator account. Could someone kindly advice?
>
> PS. Running 64-bit Vista build 5308
>
> Lawrence