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banenerd1892
post Jan 9 2009, 04:58 PM
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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!

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aommaster
post Jan 9 2009, 06:29 PM
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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 sad.gif

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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Amazing Andrew
post Jan 9 2009, 06:34 PM
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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.




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