The main benefit of activating this hidden Vista Administrator is so that you have access to an account, which does not suffer from the annoying UAC dialog box. Although it is possible to suppress the UAC with a local policy, there is a lingering fear that security is being weakened. Another worry is that rumours persist that some commands don't work properly if you turn of the UAC.
Linked to the benefit of suppressing the UAC dialog box is the fact that this Administrator account has elevated privileges. What this means is that if your run CMD you don't have to 'Run as administrator' before you get unrestricted access to the command line.
Another benefit of knowing this method is to keep the hidden Vista administrator account as a 'back door', for example, if you inadvertently lock out your main account. Sitting there at your computer, you can never believe that you will be so foolish as to lock yourself out, yet logic dictates that somewhere in the world, someone has just done that: locked themselves out of Vista. Would not they like to know how to activate the administrator account?
Naturally, it is a case of administrator by name and administrator by function, this super user is a member of the Local Administrator's group. In many ways this super Administrator account reminds me of the Unix root account. As I am not a 'professor' of Unix I do not know if you can hide root, but you can hide Vista's administrator account with this command:
Net user administrator /active:no.

Apr 26, 2008
Benefits of Vista's Hidden Administrator Account
Apr 25, 2008
Make your Vista's admin account works as Real Administror
For Windows Vista Ultimate /Bussiness/ Enterprise:
1- Click Start, and type "secpol.msc" in the search area and click Enter. (You may receive a prompt from UAC, approve/login and proceed)2- In the left list, choose "Local Policies", then "Security Options"3- Set "Accounts: Administrator account status" to Enabled.4- Set "User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account" to Disabled.For Windows Vista Home Basic / Home Premium1- Click Start, and type "cmd" in the search area, right click on "Command Prompt" and select 'Run as Administrator".2- In the command prompt type "net users Administrator /active:yes" (Note the capital "A" in Administrator) and press Enter, you will get a confirmation as "The command completed successfully".3- Click Start, and type "regedit" in the search area and click Enter, navigate to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
Double click on "FilterAdministratorToken" and set it to "0"Now log off to take effect and login to Administrator a/c.
Apr 24, 2008
Enable or disable Secure Logon (Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to login)
It's important to keep your computer as secure as possible. One way to do so is to enable Secure Logon so that you are required to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to log on.
Press the Windows button or click on start, type netplwiz or control userpasswords2 and press Enter.
Click the Advanced tab, select the Require users to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete check box, and then click OK.