Can someone help me with my administrarive account on my computer?

Question

I have a computer that have been inactive for about a year because it needed repair. Now the computer is up and running but i cant apply any changes because i forgot the password for my administrative account. Is there a way i can get around this and gain full access to my computer.

Answer 1

You can repiar or just reinstall windows. Then make a new admin account. Then you can take ownership of the files. Here is a microsoft article on this.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

Answer 2

Unfortunately when this happened to me all I could do is wipe everything out and start from scratch. I was still paying on the computer at the time (Dell), and thankfully one of the techs was able to walk me through the whole thing. Took about 3 hours.

Answer 3

hi
if your pc have windows xp you can restart it , and startup with safe mode , ( for safe mode ) when windows is coming up use F8 , when windows startupes wirh safe mode , click on administrator icon , then go to control panel , and change your administrator password .
goodluck

Answer 4

they're both loopy, reatart your pc in secure mode, no admin password required, from there you could delete the present password for admin. Or create a sparkling admin. person. to start up in secure mode, both desire you could seize it contained in the startup procedure hitting F8 repeatadly, in case you get fustrated attempting that, you could bypass to start up, run, "msconfig", hit enter, click on diagnostic startup, hit ok, and restart. purely make positive once you get it fastened to start up, run, "msconfig" hit enter, and placed it decrease back to widespread startup hitr ok and restart.

Answer 5

Nope not that I know of. You may need to just reinstall Windows

Answer 6

Boot off of a system CD and re-install your operating system