{Draft} activate the Win 11 Admin account to control a computer

ByMatthew

Saturday 13 September, 2025

Boot computer using a Windows recovery and go to advanced and command prompt.
or copy c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe c:\windows\system32\utilman.exebak

copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe /y

Access the c Drive of the computer

enter net user administrator /active:yes

Once finished open command prompt and enter net user administrator /active:no

copy c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe c:\windows\system32\utilman.exebak

copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe /y
net localgroup administrators
net user %name% *

when finished
copy c:\windows\system32\utilman.exebak c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe /y