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#1 banenerd1892

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Posted 09 January 2009 - 04:58 PM

Hello everybody! I just received a used laptop and I've run into a little snag. I have a username and password that accesses the computer but unfortunately it doesn't have administrator access. I don't know the username or password for the administrator account and I don't know what to do. Is there any way to get administrator access? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

This post has been edited by The weatherman: 09 January 2009 - 08:06 PM

#2 aommaster

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Posted 09 January 2009 - 06:29 PM

Hi!

I'm pretty sure that any advice on how to find a password out is against the rules of this site regardless of intention, so I'm afraid I cannot give you any help on that :thumbsup:

My only recommendation would be to log into Safe mode, and there should be another administrator account there from which you could make changes to your computer.

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#3 Andrew

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Posted 09 January 2009 - 06:34 PM

Per BC Rules:

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No subject matter will be allowed whose purpose is to defeat existing copyright or security measures. If a user persists and/or the activity is obviously illegal the staff reserves the right to remove such content and/or ban the user. This would also mean encouraging the use or continued use of pirated software is not permitted, and subject to the same consequences.

{Mod Edit: This Topic is Now Closed~~boopme}

This post has been edited by boopme: 09 January 2009 - 06:54 PM

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