boyfriend died, was administrator... anyway to sign as admin... need to connect under his account, as admin, so that I can update

I am a limited, user laptop, not used since about 2 years... able to update firefox..., but windows, adobe, antivirus, etc. of other things, can't not because no admin... can't remember admin password, but need not if I can just connect as long as administrator to be able to continue to use this laptop and be able to update things... Please help... windows xp still have adobe 9 and no. auto updates available... when turned on was an old date system , got underway, through the bios, but I was able to update.

First of all, I'm sorry for your loss.

You can try to connect to the default Administrator via Safe Mode account. If the default Administrator account is password protected you will need to look elsewhere for advice. MS Answers prohibits the display of password cracking instructions. There are tons of instructions for this type problem which can be found by using Google search.  :-)

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