Hi There Can Antone Help
I Have Forgotten My Administrator Password For My Laptop
I Can Still Ude It But Can Not Make Any Changes Or Add Programs
Is There A Way I Can Find It Or Would I Need To Replace The Hard Drive Or Something As You Can See I Dont Know A Great Deal About Computers
Anyone Out There Help

Hi there MAL0372,

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Firstly - please turn Caps Lock off! When you post something in all-capitals, the forum puts a letter in front of every one of your words which is very hard to read. All-caps is considered shouting on the internet, and it can annoy people.

Secondly, can you tell us what operating system your laptop is running?

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MAL0372,
if you're using Windows, you can try this:
Reinstall Windows on your computer, and come up with a new password for your administrator account

~Sean

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It may be possible to recover the account without reinstalling Windows, but first please let us know what operating system it runs.

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Give this a try (assuming you have XP): Start the computer in safe mode (when the computer turns on and does the typical power-up tests, press F8, and when prompted, select "Safe Mode"). This will automatically enable the dafault "Administrator" account (I'm assuming you have a different account that has admin privilages but is not the one that is called "Administrator")--generally people don't set a password for this account when installing windows. If not, you're in luck. If so, then I'll have to think more. But if you didn't set a password for this account, then if you do get into the Administrator account through safe mode, from there you can go into the User Profiles (in the control panel) and delete any password associated with any account and set a different password--you don't have to know or type in the original password, just simply delete it. Hopefully that works.

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There are various Password recovery tools on the market to reset your Admin -- some of the free.

If your PC has a floppy disk drive, try this site to download the software.

Here is another NT password recovery tool. Link here.

Hi, why not try the linux orphcrack live cd. This boots into a linux distro, opens only 1 windows and by 10-15 mins, will have cracked all user password hashes, including Administrator! Enjoy!http://www.compuforums.org/images/smilies/yes.gif

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Uh.........A: How did you forget your password for YOUR laptop? B: How do you not know what OS is on the computer? Not too long ago when moving my system from one place to another I made the mistake of turning my computer on before hooking my mouse and keyboard up - Well - I had to reinstall Windows XP again to have my system recognize my keyboard and mouse - Well when I got to a point - Guess what? - It still asked me for my password before I could proceed - Imagine that........... Windows has a safe guard to make sure you are the administrator for that system - I might suggest the new hdd or when and if you do get it up and running again the system will be recognized by the manufacturer as well as the OS on the internet to see if it is authentic!