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windows 7 admin

I'm just making sure I got this right. for win7 ultimate, if you don't have the password for the accounts that show when windows first boots up, there isn't a way to get to the admin account. Because isn't the admin account disabled by default and you have to enable it through windows?
I guess there is probably some way to boot to a cd, but I don't want to do some questionable thing, I just want to make sure I'm not forgetting some way to get to the admin account.

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JeffBeall

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jcimarron - that is a good description, and what I meant by ""if you don't have the password for the accounts that show when windows first boots up, there isn't a way to get to the admin account"
is that I am helping my cousin and his pc boots to window 7 ultimate - and there are two user accounts showing but he doesn't have the password for them. I remember in winxp, usually you could just put in administrator with no password and that almost always worked. I know in win7 the security is better and thought that by default the administrator account is disabled
also at my work, everything is win7 in a domain so if the last user shows on the log in screen, you can put your account in, or put in . / then the local admin account to log in locally.
so with windows ultimate I just wanted to make sure there isn't some easy way to try the admin account when the user doesn't remember their password.

jcimarron

JeffBeall--
Is this of any help
http://www.pcworld.com/article/206809/admin_no_password.html
You will have to use option 2--a Linux CD.

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