Computer Learning

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When Vista first came out I had to help someone who bought a refurbished Sony laptop and it was in a middle eastern language for some reason!

I found a program called "Enable Admin.exe" that allowed me to enable the admin account. I had to do this by getting into a command prompt by using the Vista disk and once there I was able to get to a USB flash drive and run it.

Not sure if that will work or not with service packs on Vista as I believe they might have provisioned something to stop that.

I know there's a way with XP to get in and change passwords during a repair installation but doubt it works with Vista..

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/lpmarticle.asp?id=305

Here's one for Vista

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102005-reset-user-account-password.html