I'm unable to enable the Administrator account on my Dell Latitude E5550 running Windows 8.1 Pro.
When I run the lusrmgr applet to enable Administrator (or execute 'net user administrator /active:yes') I get the following message:
'The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password complexity and password history requirements.'
When I checked, these were 1, Disabled and 0 respectively. I have never altered these settings on this laptop before as it's a new machine.
I've tried various settings in the password policy using secpol.msc, such as 8, Enabled and 5 respectively, but I still get that error message from lusrmgr.msc.
I guess I could just create another account with administrator privileges but I'd like to understand and fix this problem.
Thanks for any advice.
When I run the lusrmgr applet to enable Administrator (or execute 'net user administrator /active:yes') I get the following message:
'The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password complexity and password history requirements.'
When I checked, these were 1, Disabled and 0 respectively. I have never altered these settings on this laptop before as it's a new machine.
I've tried various settings in the password policy using secpol.msc, such as 8, Enabled and 5 respectively, but I still get that error message from lusrmgr.msc.
I guess I could just create another account with administrator privileges but I'd like to understand and fix this problem.
Thanks for any advice.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro x64