How can I disable the Administrator account on Windows 7 Starter Edition? I enabled it using the NT Password and Registry Editor so that I could install software for a client who didn't leave me their netbook password. There doesn't appear to be a way to disable it using Windows itself (no lusrmgr.msc, net user Administrator /enable:no
gives an error, no secpol.msc).
Windows 7 – How to Disable Administrator Account on Starter Edition
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Best Answer
I solved this by loading the SAM registry hive and editing the
Domains\Account\Users\000001F4\F
value and setting the 38th byte to 11. 11 is disabled 10 is enabled.I used the NT Password and Offline Registry Editor http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/regedit.txt to do this. Once you
cd
to the right key, the commands to edit are as follows: