I need help resetting my admin password.

I have a Windows Vista. I have this computer used, from a rental store. They dnt have the password. I need to reset my administrator password. How to reset it?

Sunday, November 28, 2010, 01:52:24 + 0000, James_86 wrote:
 
 
> I have a Windows Vista. I have this computer used, from a rental store. They dnt have the password. I need to reset my administrator password. How to reset it?
 
 
You must do more than that.
 
If I bought a used computer, no matter who previously owned the
first thing I could do with it would be to reinstall the operating
system itself. You don't know how the computer has been maintained,
which has been improperly installed, what's missing, what virus and
There may be spyware, etc. I would not live with someone
other errors and problems, possibility of kiddy p0rn, etc. and I
would not recommend anyone else to do.
 
If you reinstall Windows properly, you are playing with fire.
 
  
 

Ken Blake (MS-MVP)

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