System Restore doesn't have access to the administrator account

Hello

Yesterday, I created a new username on my PC under Windows 8, but unfortunately I typed the wrong outlook address, so there is a user account on my system with an address from outlook that is not mine and I do not know the password.  To make things worse, I seem to have made my own local users represent a non-administrator, so the only administrator user account on the PC is that I can not enter and do not know the password.
If I could somehow reset the system back to how it was before yesterday, everything would be fine, but I do not know how, because I don't have an administrator account.
Any help is appreciated!  Thank you.

Thanks for the help.  I just reinstalled Windows 8 in the end - I had everything backed up anyway, and it seemed like the easiest option.

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