I have 2 user accounts on my computer, 1 is mine and the other my
boyfriends.  I also have an administrator account, which is me, with the
same password as my user account.
I cannot access my user account.  I type in the password and it says

I haven't used my laptop for a while, and I forgot my login password.  I can
only recall the first half of it.  Anyway, can you tell me how I can get into
my laptop.
Thanks!!

Help - my son has changed the (only) administrator password and forgotten it.
How can I get round this?

After countless hours of searching I've found no answer...
How does one disable the auto-logoff in vista?! I've search high and
low in display settings, power management, group policies, and have also
tried numerous 'net' commands in cmd with no luck. I use logmein from

Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 32 bit
This has happened twice with 2 admin accounts. They try to login, and once
they enter their password, a message comes that says that the user profile
failed to load. It then logs the user off. In order to salvage the accounts

I am the administrator on my p.c. And i have two other acccounts on it, my
account works fine but when we try and sign on to the other accounts  it says
"windows could not connect to the system event notification service . please
consult your system  administrator." And will not ...

I  have a dell computer.I assigned a administrative password but didn't assign a harddrive password,Well my computer started acting strange and NOW its stating the hard drive is locked until
I unlock with password.I NEVER assigned it one.Anyone have any ideas?How to override it or ...

After my sony laptop sits idle for 3-5 mins I get a pop up that has the
user picture and below it says Locked How can I stop this as it is
annoying me I have no passwords and UAC is off......

Let'start with  .......... I am the administrator.......Vista says so!
But when I try to install a program, Windows says "I must have
Administrative rights to install......See Windows help (msi.chm) or MSDN"
How can I tell Vista that I have these rights?

Any help would be appreciated as I am totally stuck!
Only have one account on Vista Home Premium, which I set up when first
loading up the PC - this account is the admin account.
I recently trialled some Adobe software, the software ran out and I

Hi, I currently maintain 10+ computers for one of my cleints. Some of
the computers are offsite in different cities and some are local. A few
are using vista home premium 32bit and others win xp. I try and maintain
them remotely via LogMeIn. All users who access the machines are ...

Is there a way to apply a shim with the application compatibility
administrator (from the act) to an specific application to force the
application to always run elevated when UAC is enabled, without prompting the
user? (do you want to grant the app blabla).

OHH NO!
I had admin privilegies on my work pc (by an accident), and then I did
(by accident):
"Run *cmd.exe* with administrative previlliges and type

I forgot this and now I am not able to do some things. Please help me get
back my Admin Password.
I would hate to go thru a re-installation of Vista.
Thanks in advance and anticipation

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?