{"id":8158,"date":"2019-01-02T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:04:27","slug":"windows-10-v1809-upgrade-deactivates-build-in-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/01\/02\/windows-10-v1809-upgrade-deactivates-build-in-administrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 V1809: Upgrade deactivates Build-In Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/windows-10-v1809-upgrade-deaktiviert-administrator-konto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]A brief note for Windows 10 users working with the Build-In Account <em>Administrator<\/em>. When you upgrade to the October 2018 update (Windows 10 v1809), this account is disabled in some cases.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Background information<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vg05.met.vgwort.de\/na\/a2d58f69d6734c85b9582174e134a41c\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">In Windows 10, there is a built-in user account called <em>Administrator<\/em>, which is disabled by default. I remember, this account was already present in Windows XP \u2013 but I can't test it at the moment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The account is deactivated by default during setup (imho during the OOBE phase) if a second administrator account is created during setup.&nbsp;\n<li>Since Windows Vista, this administrator account does not need a user account control query to assign administrative permissions to tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Microsoft provides this Build-In-Administrator for emergency cases: If no second administrator account exists in Windows, the account will be activated. On the other hand, this means that the account is deactivated during setup when the OOBE phase is performed.<\/p>\n<h2>Don't use the Build-In Administrator<\/h2>\n<p>I recommend to let that Build-In account <em>Administrator<\/em> disabled. Because if this user profile becomes corrupted and no other user account with administrator rights exists anymore, usually only a new installation of the operating system remains.<\/p>\n<p>If, on the other hand, the second administrator account or its password is getting lost and the Build-In Administrator account is deactivated, the system can usually be rescued with a hack. At the end of the article I linked blog posts that show how to activate this administrator account in a Windows PE environment. I have successfully used this several times to save systems. <\/p>\n<h2>Attention when upgrading from V1803 to V1803<\/h2>\n<p>The Technet team from Microsoft Japan has published a blog post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190102135138\/https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/jpntsblog\/2018\/12\/28\/windows-10-version-1803-%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89-version-1809-%E3%81%AB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A8%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upgrading from Windows 10 version 1803 to version 1809 will invalidate built-in Administrator<\/a>, which deals with the issue of Build-In Account Administrator when upgrading from Windows 10 V1803 to version 1809. The statements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you upgrade to version 1809 with Windows 10 version 1803 and Build-In Account <em>Administrator<\/em> enabled, the account can be disabled.\n<li>The account is not disabled when the feature update is installed if there is no other administrator account.&nbsp;\n<p>If a second administrator account exists and is enabled, Setup disables the Build-In <em>Administrator<\/em> account when you upgrade to Windows 10 V1809 during the OOBE phase.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personally, I would have said that's the behavior I expected. However, the Technet team from Microsoft Japan writes that the developers at Microsoft are currently working on solving this issue. Microsoft is currently working on releasing a patch by the end of January 2019.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2>Some workrarounds<\/h2>\n<p>If you need to upgrade before the patch is released, make sure that you can log in with a different administrative user account than the built-in administrator. <\/p>\n<p>Has an upgrade been performed and is the built-in administrator then disabled? Then log on to the remaining administrator account and activate the Build-In Administrator. This can be done in an administrative prompt using the command:<\/p>\n<p><em>net user administrator \/active:yes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Windows 10 Pro \/ Enterprise you can use the extended user administration. To do this, open the computer administration with administrative authorizations and double-click on the <em>Administrator<\/em> account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Computerverwaltung\" alt=\"Computerverwaltung\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NTCGnlH.jpg\" width=\"611\" height=\"343\"><\/p>\n<p>Then enable the disabled administrator account in the properties via the <em>Account is enabled<\/em> checkbox (which I don't really recommend for the above reasons).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Konteneigenschaften\" alt=\"Konteneigenschaften\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ImCc3rN.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>However, if the second administrator account is damaged, the above approach does not work anymore. Then you can try the approaches I described in the article series <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/12\/08\/activate-build-in-administrator-account-in-windows-i\/\">Activate Build-in Administrator account in Windows \u2013 I<\/a>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deskmodder.de\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/build-in-administrator-konto-wird-beim-funktionsupdate-auf-die-1809-deaktiviert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/12\/08\/activate-build-in-administrator-account-in-windows-i\/\">Activate Build-in Administrator account in Windows \u2013 I<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/12\/09\/activate-build-in-administrator-account-in-windows-ii\/\">Activate Build-in Administrator account in Windows \u2013 II<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/12\/11\/windows-yes-button-in-user-account-controls-is-disabled\/\">Windows: Yes button in user account controls is disabled<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1782\">Windows 10: file system error (-1073741819) \u2013 'extended attributes are in consistent'<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/07\/06\/windows10-open-command-prompt-window-as-administrator\/\">Windows 10: Open command prompt window as administrator<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]A brief note for Windows 10 users working with the Build-In Account Administrator. 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