How to uninstall vista without password?

My 13 year old child has a dell that came with vista already installed (no CD included) it doesn't have an internet connection because it is reserved for working from home. His younger brother got and changed his password and don't me remember what it changed to and we cannot retrieve the password.

I tried to restart, tried past and adding an admin account, but I can't, I even tried a password recovery disk and nothing works. Can I remove Vista power the computer off at the start before the opening of windows? I have a Windows 7 disc I want to load instead.

http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/189126

"Microsoft's strategy concerning lost or forgotten passwords"

Microsoft cannot help you recover the passwords of the files and Microsoft who are lost or forgotten product features.

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If you want to continue to Vista:

http://supportapj.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/DSN/en/document?journalid=67E9C215C4BABD6CE040AE0AB5E14F05&docid=336966

And that way if you have a recovery partition on your hard drive.

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Windows 7:

Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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