A friend defined on his computer to logon WITHOUT having to enter the password.

He logs in automatically as "Administrator".

Now I convinced him to use the logon screen with password.

How can we find out now the current password for the Administrator account
which ic currently active (he forgot it)?

If this is not possible: How can we at least overwrite the old password with a new without having to
enter the old password ?

Les

The date and time was 1/16/2008 2:26 PM, and on a whim, Leslie Brooks
pounded out on the keyboard:

> A friend defined on his computer to logon WITHOUT having to enter the password.
>
> He logs in automatically as "Administrator".
>
> Now I convinced him to use the logon screen with password.
>
> How can we find out now the current password for the Administrator account
> which ic currently active (he forgot it)?
>
> If this is not possible: How can we at least overwrite the old password with a new without having to
> enter the old password ?
>
> Les
>

Hi Les,

Read here:
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admini...r_password.htm

I've used the Offline NT Password with success many times, but there are
other options there also.

Report back,

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Leslie Brooks <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote on Wed, 16 Jan 2008:

>A friend defined on his computer to logon WITHOUT having to enter the password.
>
>He logs in automatically as "Administrator".
>
>Now I convinced him to use the logon screen with password.
>
>How can we find out now the current password for the Administrator account
>which ic currently active (he forgot it)?
>
>If this is not possible: How can we at least overwrite the old password
>with a new without having to
>enter the old password ?

Hi Les

If I'm understanding you correctly, your friend at the moment still has
his computer set to automatically log in, and has normal access to
Windows, is that right?

If it is, then you don't have to know the old password to set a new one.
Click on Start | Run and type "control userpasswords2" (without the
quotes), then click OK.

In the window that opens, check the box that says: "Users must enter a
username and password. . .". You should then find that the account names
listed below become "active".

Click on Administrator to highlight it, then click the Reset Password
button at the bottom of the window. In the dialog box you'll need to
type your new password and then type it a second time to confirm it. OK
your way out and you should be all set :-)

However, if you've already set the machine to ask for the existing
password and your friend doesn't know it, you'll need to use a utility
such as the one Terry mentioned.

BTW, you might mention to your friend that it's really not a good idea
to use the built-in Administrator account for day-to-day work. It's best
to put a strong password on it (one that he'll remember!) and set it
aside for use in emergencies. It's best to create a user account, with
admin privileges if that's what he wants, for regular use. Then if it
gets corrupted, or he forgets the password again :-) you always have
another way in. . . like having two sets of keys to your car :-)

Hope this helps, good luck!
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Nightowl