admin password

Running Win8.1 & don't have Password Reset Stick. Signed in with a Microsoft account which is powerless and useless. All the the stuff you can type into the "RUN" box result in a popup asking for a (missing) password! How do I restore my full admin privileges???

I installed MySQL on my laptop. Then try to write code but it was giving me error. I thought it was the port using the same as the Microsoft SQL server, Kind of regret That I didn't do a little more research. It wasn't storing the admin password. I used command prompt to reset MySQL password but...

some time ago I used a reg hach for sticky keys to replace my admin password. does any one recall something like that. my pc was stolen and I lost the 411 and would like to regain it

Hi there! I have forgotten my admin password to my sons computer (i have the UAC so he cant install things without my password) i have heard something about cmd and net user but i cant use cmd with admin rights without the password. What should i do?

Hi guyz, I am in serious trouble....I installed window 10, 3 days back and after installing some graphic drivers it was just awesome.Today when I staarted my laptop, the window booted slowly and then when I signed up there was a black screen with a movable cursor. You know what's serious? I...

I lost power during a printer software install and had to use startup repair to get back to normal. Although I was using the Admin password (no other accounts present) windows would create a temp user for each login. I was not able to use my desktop. Using Windows explorer, I could see and open...

Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, I have a 32-bit WinPE into which I have integrated MSDART tools and some 3rd party remote control software as well as some utilities provided by a vendor which supports our hard drive encryption solution. The long and short of it is that there are occasions in...

G'day, We have an older application that we distribute to clients with the advice they should run it in Windows XP SP3 Compatibility Mode when using Windows 7. As of late, we have had clients say that running the software in this mode means having to enter a Admin password. As a test, we had...

I bought a laptop with win 8 installed. Pretty much a PIA until I installed Classic Shell. Upon start up I created the first user account, admin. Upon every boot up, I get a plain blue screen asking for admin password to access. With Classic Shell I went into control panel and created 2...

How can one discover whether a display like this Link Removed is genuinely from MS, rather than from malware phishing for the Admin password? Though MS says (below) this blue+yellow UAC shield verifies MS is the publisher, clearly the presence of the shield does not guarantee MS is the...

There is a BIG bug in UAC password prompts and "Run as Administrator"!!! Accessing files/folders Well, first problem is accessing other users' files/folders! Until recently I had only one Administrator User, but I created a Standard User for safer daily use. I have all my documents in the...

Lost power last night... so windows was not shut down properly. Upon startup, I lost some services - wireless, print services, some programs not running, etc... I went online to search for solutions. At some point I reached a 'windows validation' failure screen (in retrospect, some...

Hello, I got a new computer last week and it was working fine up until now running windows 7 professional 64bit. I activated the guest account and logged on to it, and when I tried to log back to the administrator ("owner") account, I got the following message (on the windows logon screen)...

Just bought a Eee PC-1101HA with Windows 7 pre-installed, when start up the PC first time it wants an admin password to login? I have not created any and there is no password in the manuals!!! What is this? Just bought a Eee PC-1101HA with Windows 7 pre-installed, when start up the PC first...

My PC running vista received the automatic update ( critical, important, or some other line of crap ) warning. They were downloaded as usual and I was asked to install. I clicked yes but a window kept popping up telling me the install failed and would I like to retry. After many retrys I gave up...

I am using a secondary account to get the windows 7 into a disc...but, i don't know the password of the admin acc and so i'm kinda stuck... I am thinking of getting it downloaded on another com and installing it into the one with the admin pw...But, when i install the windows 7 program, will i...

Running build 7048. When I try to install, for example, Firefox, Windows displays that I don't have admin's permissions and asks to type admin password. But I'm the only user on my computer. I've heard there was a tweak solving this problem. Can you help me?