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Windows 7 Professional - How to unlock administrator account

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I have a Windows 7 Professional machine with the administrator account disabled, and the local user account is locked out. Is there any way to unlock this machine?

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Fix for: Windows 7 Professional - How to unlock administrator account

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You can wait for the account lockout to expire. This depends on your GPO but these should be the defaults. The default settings are: Account Lockout Duration = 30 minutes Account lockout threshold = 5 invalid log on attempts Reset account lockout co…

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