Vista - Forgotten Administrator Password

I have a laptop running Vista Business which gives me three ways to log on
to the PC:
1) User Account (working fine)
2) Fingerprint reader / User Account (working fine)
3) Administrator Account (FORGOTTEN PW - cannot log in)

For a long time I used the laptop without any problem, as I logged on to the
User Account. But now I need Admin access and have forgotten the admin pw,
naturally without having created some sort of an password recovery disk.

How can I recover or reset the Admin PW? I can login to the PC just fine,
but cannot execute certain functions which require an Admin login.

Any ideas?

Ganz Doof wrote:
If you only made the one account with Administrative privileges, then use
NTpasswd (a Linux password reset disk) to change that account's password to
a blank. Then log into that account and change the password to something
you will remember. Write it down somewhere.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Because the built-in Administrator account is disabled in Vista, I like to
make at least two user accounts with Administrative privileges along with a
standard user account for daily work. You can always log in automatically
to your daily account if you don't want to see the extra accounts on the
Welcome Screen.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

Here is some software that may work for you.

"Ganz Doof" wrote:

I can vouch for Malke's suggestion. I've seen it used many times successfully. The best option is to reset the password, however. It is a rather "geeky" tool; not a nice Windows graphical user interface. You might want to check this page for a demonstration of its use, with screenshots provided in the article:
Reset lost Windows passwords with Offline Registry Editor | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com
There is also a video about using this tool here:
Video: Reset Windows passwords with the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor | IT Dojo | TechRepublic.com

Hi,

Here's a documented a step by step solution here:

This one is for most flavours of Windows:
http://<br /> <br /> http://www.prop...ndows_All.html

This is for Windows XP only:
http://www.proposedsolution.com/PS00..._Password.html

Hope this helps.

~Rosco~