Unable to login Administrator account in Windows

Most of the time we have to work with the administrator account on a Windows environment in a load test or setting up of monitors. A common problem that I encountered is that I’m unable to login as an administrator to have full privileges to the machine either if some settings have changed throughout the duration of its usage. In anyway, to login as administrator account, you will need to enable administrator login for the Windows XP.

And in order to do that, you will have to edit the registry.

• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
• Navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
• Use the File, Export option to backup the key (recommended)
• Create a new DWORD Value named Administrator
• Double-click Administrator, and set 1 as its data
• Exit the Registry Editor.
• Log off the current user and return to the login page again. You should be able to see the administrator login.

NOTE: This can also be applied to non-administrator account login on the welcome menu.

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