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Using ntlite11/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If you do not enter a password, it’ll be treated as a blank password, which in Windows 10, if you have an account with a blank password, the system will log you on automatically! It’s also dangerous to have a blank password for administrator by default, forget that you need to change the password and walk away with it!.You don’t really want your administrator in plain text anywhere! This will also make the installation image non-generic that other people cannot benefit from it. ![]() xml file for the Presets which is littered in NTLite’s program folder. If you enter a password for the account, NTLite will record it in your.Here’s where I run into a bunch of dilemma because of the unspoken rules (implied behavior in NTLite by doing this): Then check “Enable built-in Administrator using this account”. In NTlite, to enable the built-in administrator account, you’ll have to click the “Add local account” button at the ribbon (menu) bar: I was able to fight this with NTlite, but even NTlite does not account for all scenarios, and I’ve devised a little scripting to have it do exactly what I wanted (use built-in admin account and ask user to establish the password for it) out of the box. Microsoft consider administrator account (in Linux world, root) bad practices so they are eager to make it difficult for you to do it the old fashioned way (like in Windows 2000, NT 4 and before). If you dodged it (by disconnecting from internet and have it try to set up a local account), you are still required to set up an account OTHER than “Administrator” (built-in account) itself and the built-in administrator account is disabled out of the box. Windows 10 setup, if not slipstreamed (or automated), will try to trick you into establishing a Microsoft account. ![]()
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