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If you lost your Windows Administrator password for one account, can you use the Guest account and change that to the Administrator?

Jasper John Cinatad
2012-02-21 06:12:00
You can use HIREN Boot CD to promote your Guest account to Admin, 
Meghna
2012-01-27 15:05:00
Hey.. This might sound a liitle stupid but i forgot both my password and username!!!I And i have no other account except the guest account... What should I do?!?!!?!?! Please help!!!!
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Meghna
2012-01-27 15:05:00
Hey.. This might sound a liitle stupid but i forgot both my password and username!!!I And i have no other account except the guest account... What should I do?!?!!?!?! Please help!!!!
Lemon shen
2011-07-28 10:21:00
 hmm, i forgot my password before, and i have tried the safe Mode and my guest account, but failed to enter the system.finally i use Windows login Recovery software, I downloaded the professional free trial and reset my password. Wow, it's great. users lost password would better have a try.
Mike
2011-07-24 01:04:00
If you think about it you could have answered that question yourself. If any non-administrator account was able to recover passwords or make itself administrator there would be no point in having them. In fact, the predefined Guest account has even less permissions than a regular non-admin account.
Jeffery Fabish
2011-07-23 22:38:00
Is searching MakeUseOf not "hip" anymore? Also, we are talking about hacking an account, could you at least supply support with your operating system? (7, Vista, XP, etc).With that being said, there are very many ways to get *back* into Windows (I never accused Windows of being secure). Here are a few.- http://bit.ly/dCnpp (MakeUseOf :: Article)- http://bit.ly/nVPQ6d (MyDigitalLife :: Article)- http://bit.ly/1cJ27q (PC LoginNow - My Favorite Tool :: Tool)