Administrator password does not not under Vista

I have a new desktop computer with Vista and have worked on getting it set up. I've set up user accounts, but my password of the administrator account does not work. I tried all the options and checked the capslock and even tried a few misspellings, even if I don't have a problem the first 4 or 5 times I had used it. is there anyway to reset it without having to reinstall Windows since I don't have a password reset disk?

You did not account for additional user with administrative privileges? If this isn't the case, you will need to use a program like NTpasswd empty password for your account, so you can connect.

Download the bootable CD .iso image file, burning with burning software, third party (as an image, not in the form of data), starting with the media that you have created. You need to maybe change the boot order in the BIOS or obtain a menu of boot command temporary with the pressure of a special key. NTpasswd will run. Follow the instructions carefully.

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

Once you're back in the system, here are my suggestions for how to configure user accounts in Vista:

You absolutely don't want to have only one user account. In particular, you do not want one account user with administrative privileges on Vista because the administrator account integrated (normally only used in emergencies) is disabled by default. If you use as an administrator for your daily work, and this account is corrupt, things will be difficult. It is not impossible to activate the built-in administrator to rescue things, but it will take third-party tools and work outside the operating system.

The user account that is for your daily work must be a Standard user, with the extra administrative user (call it something like 'CompAdmin' or 'Tech' or similar) only it for elevation purposes. After you have created "CompAdmin", connect to it and change your normal user account Standard. Then log on to your regular account.
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