How do I get my friend off? Are they the "Real" Administrator still on this computer? Do you want to go back to factory PCrestore or just get rid of your friends names on the computer?? I was instructed to turn the computer on and hit "F8" to get the the menu.
That's when I stumbled upon these Forums, including issues regarding Administrator issues. I don't really want to change Administrator things, I just want to restore to factory settings to get the junk off.
Regarding my friend that shows up I thought I already deleted her from Users so I don't know why her name showed up as I mentioned in my first post. Browse Community. Windows General. Turn on suggestions. In reply to Bill Smithers's post on May 15, Thanks for all the info Bill - I have just tried a read-only free version of a 3rd party password rescue program that indicates there is an Administrator and Guest user on the laptop - however I cannot find a way to get to them on this old HP Pavillion dv5 - do you have any links to options to do this please?
In reply to PhildoOz's post on May 15, The laptop is running Windows Vista Home Premium. Phil I am sorry but we can not give you any assistance with what a 3rd party password reset program finds for you.
In reply to Bill Smithers's post on May 16, Hi Bill - I am not after help with the 3rd party sw - but am after help on how to access an existing Administrator logon either via the command line i. In reply to PhildoOz's post on May 16, You have to be signed in to do this and you can't sign in because you have forgot the password. Note If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt , and then click Run as Administrator.
When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue. Having an administrator account with no password set is a huge security risk. And in some cases this administrator account could be used to circumvent other security mechanisms. For example, parental controls could not be effective if the child could simply login with the built-in administrator account and do whatever they want, including disabling the Parental Controls.
Open the User Account Control Panel. On the subsequent screen, you'll find an easy way to turn off UAC. There is another possible wrinkle on Method 2. It is possible to set a password for your Administrator account. But there's another way to manage user accounts: the User Accounts Control Panel. User Accounts doesn't display any settings for the Administrator account until you're booted into that account. But once you're booted into Administrator, it lets you set a password for it without any negative effects.
So this is a work-around if you'd like to leave your Administrator account enabled. It's important to protect it with a password that's not easy to guess or arrive at by trial and error. Despite what it may seem to some people, Microsoft's decision to disable and lightly hide the Administrator account in Windows was a very good one. Millions of people have for many years been living in this account -- many without even having set a password for it.
Doing so makes it easy for malware and hackers to waltz into an account that has unlimited access to the operating system. By changing the name for the account on your computer that has administrative privileges, and by setting a password for it, Windows security is raised considerably.
The user experience for dealing with User Account Control elevations, although improved in Windows Vista Post-Beta-2 Build , is still a little rough. Microsoft has designed UAC in a way that keeps you from having to reboot between changes, but there are still too many nuisance UAC prompts. There's still development time to go on Vista's User Account Controls. Online editorial director Scot Finnie has been an editor for a variety of IT publications for more than 20 years.
This article was adapted from the July issue of Scot's Newsletter and is used by permission. Scot Finnie, former Editor in Chief of Computerworld, is a freelance writer with decades of experience covering the IT industry.
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