Activating Windows Administrator Account and Setting Password

I was installing a piece of software recently that needed access to the Windows Administrator account–it essentially would not work with my regular local account that has admin access. Makes no sense, but that’s Windows.

The Administrator account is apparently disabled quite often on local installations of Windows, so the account needs to be reactivated and configured with a password.

The account can be reactivated from the command prompt or PowerShell with:

$ net user administrator /active:yes

Once reactivated, a password can be set for the account with:

$ net user administrator PASSWORD