Re: forget password of the administrator account, which is only accoun

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"password issue" <password issue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
A very stupid mistake. Forgot the password of the administrator account of
the computer, which is the only account in login menu. How to access the
computer now? Thanks for any advice.

To add to Gordon's reply, if you set a password on the built in Administrator account and don't remember it or the only admin account on the system is the built in Administrator account (not good practice) and that's the account you have lost the password for try this utility to reset it.

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/editor.html

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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