My son got on as administrator and changed my password and now doesn't know
what it is.  I now of course can't approve changes or downloads, etc.
Is there a back way in somehow?

I have a customer who has forgotten his password in Vista Home Premium.
The only account visible is that account
When i log on in safe mode, the administrator account is still not visible.
How can i get around this?

Running Vista Business w SP1
Have a simple setup, with one user - an User Account Control is turned OFF.
Since I use a Hard Drive Password, I prefer not to use a Windows login
password.

I'm still trying to get the hang of Vista accounts and the haze that
surrounds them!
I have only recently "converted" from XP and am having trouble with
Folders that are refused access!

The setup:
Laptop:  Vista Business, in a WORKGROUP, and logging in with an account with
administrative privledges.
Server:  2003 AD Server, in a domain, i.e. "PSM"

Through circumstances out of my control, I have installed windows on my
machine twice. I have a windows folder on both my C and D drive. When I try
do delete my old windows folder I get an access denied error. I have tried to
take control, but to no avail. What do I do?

When I remove the password from our 4 accounts it always comes up later in
the month and asks to change the password because it will expire.  How do I
remove the passwords so they never affect my accounts. What I do now is add
the password and then delete until the expiration ...

i was on my normal account which had admin privellegies and my laptop
is used by many people so i changed the permission of my hard drive C:/
for their account which is the guest account to "do not allow"
some how i think i managed to change the permission for me too. so now

attempting to uninstall a program i keep getting "administrator has set
policies to not allow "yet i cant find where i can go to change settings to
allow uninstallation yes i am the administrator

I have Windows Vista Ultimate.
Every time I turn on my computer, little pop up windows tell me to set a
password as a way to activate Parental Controls.
HOWEVER, I do not need Parental Controls - I am the only user of the

I have recently set up a standard account for my children.  They cannot
access my photos or music from this account.  How do I share all of my photos
and music with them so they can access from their account?

administrator account with no luck! :confused: I originally set up Vista
under my son's account, but his account now has parental controls.  My
acount, which I thought had administrator rights has been changed ...

Help!
I have three user accounts (one is the Admin one). A second is for my
husband. But I seem to have acquired a Guest user account (may have done this
accidentally?). Anyhow, my antivirus keeps telling me that this Guest account

Okay, The information on how to turn off the UAC was of great help. Could
anyone Please tell me how to get rid of the Red Sheild that keeps reminding
me that UAC is off?
Thank You

last night i made a new user name and started a new project, when i woke up
this morning my lap top wouldnt start up so it restored itself to a previous
time, but it said it wouldn't harm my files. when i finally got onto my lap
top neither the user name nor the file were there. ...