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Download Article Explore this Article Steps. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Author Info Last Updated: June 3, Press F8 before the Windows boot screen appears. You will be be prompted with a boot options menu.
Click through several self-explanatory screens until your reach the familiar 'Welcome' screen. Note that this welcome screen is limited to colors and x resolution because the primary graphics will have been set to the Windows Safe Mode software VGA adapter.
You will not be able to change this mode even in Display options, while Windows is running in Safe Mode. Find the icon for the Administrator user.
If the default settings of your system haven't been changed, there should be no password for this account. The Safe Mode Welcome screen might display some of the other users on your system. Press Yes at the prompt asking if you would like to continue using Safe Mode. Open up the command shell. This will bring up a window likely unfamiliar to you. This is the command line, it allows you to manage files or change settings without restriction no restriction on the administrative account.
Before the graphical environment of Windows, this is what Microsoft users used. Change the password of the account. It will ask you to type in a password, then to retype it. You just changed the password! Log in. Exit the command shell dialogue, don't type in anything else if you don't know what you're doing, you could really hose down your computer.
Log out of the administrative account, then log back in to your account with the new password. Reboot your computer. As long as you don't press any keys e.
F8 during the boot-up the computer will start up normally. I was given a desktop with Windows XP. How do I take off or reset administrator password? You can use a password reset disk or try guessing the password. Most of the admin passwords are "admin" or "administrator". My problem is I have a brand new computer, I set up 2 user accounts, yet when I try log on as the administrator it does not recognize the password of either user.
On a new set up, usually, you have to go through "first boot" at which time you are asked the administrator password which MAY be different than the user accounts that you set up. If it did not ask that question, try leaving the password blank and click OK.
You may create an additional account with Admin rights and logon with that. User accounts do not change the admin password. I tried log in on with a blank and it did not work. Weird because it's a brand new computer and all I did was create 2 user accounts, nothing else.
This is by design. It is not normal for a computer manufacturer to set an administrator password, therefore if there has been a password set on this machine then you or whoever initially set the computer up from first boot must have set the password.
If you have tried to log in as administrator without putting a password in and you cannot log in there is nothing else we can help you with here. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.
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I used both of the passwords from the user accounts.
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