Master your Windows Admin account

Unless you’re using a locked-down work computer, it’s reasonable to assume that as the owner and primary user of your Windows computer, you are also the administrator. In fact, if you go to Settings, click Accounts and select ‘Your info’, you may see Administrator under your name. However, Windows also has a hidden administrator account, which is more powerful than the standard one. The latter is really just a user account with some administrative rights, which is why you’re still required to manually run certain tools as an administrator, whereas the former has the highest permissions of any profile on your PC.

Here we’ll explain how to unlock the secret Administrator account and