How to re-gain administrator rights?

Hello, not sure if this is the appropriate section, so feel free to direct me.

Anyway, I have three accounts on my Win7 Lenovo Ideacentre. 2 Standard, 1 Admin. I started using this PC yesterday after a 4 month hiatus.

unfortunately, I've forgotten the password to my admin account. Thus I am extremely restricted and cannot even install new software.

How should I go about fixing this?

luckyrick said:

Hello, not sure if this is the appropriate section, so feel free to direct me.

Anyway, I have three accounts on my Win7 Lenovo Ideacentre. 2 Standard, 1 Admin. I started using this PC yesterday after a 4 month hiatus.

unfortunately, I've forgotten the password to my admin account. Thus I am extremely restricted and cannot even install new software.

How should I go about fixing this?

Check the following article for some tips;

7 Free Windows Password Recovery Tools

HTH

use password reset bootdisk from : Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor
small file and very helpful. can be use in xp to windows 7 and even with servers.

Sir George said:

Check the following article for some tips;

7 Free Windows Password Recovery Tools

HTH

sorry for the late reply.

unfortunately, I am unable to install the software required to burn the Ophcrack ISO to a DVD or USB

Ztruker said:

Also see here: How to Reset Your Forgotten Windows Password the Easy Way - How-To Geek

If you do not have a Windows 7 installation DVD, you can download a legal copy with SP1 integrated from here: Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River.
Make sure you get the same version you have, Home Premium, Pro or Ultimate and 32 or 64 bit. Note that Basic or Starter is not available.

I recommend using ImgBurn at 4X speed (or the slowest available) to create the DVD from the downloaded .iso file.

So is it possible to copy the ISO mentioned above to a thumb drive?
And if I use that and follow the How-To-Geek method, will it erase the data on my hard drive?

I'm quite the noob, sorry for that.

not quite what i expected

Try what I suggested above. Download the .rar file and extract. It comes with .iso file which is the reseter and .iso burner. So, once downloaded and extracted, just open the ISO Burner and load the .iso file.

kradangel said:

Try what I suggested above. Download the .rar file and extract. It comes with .iso file which is the reseter and .iso burner. So, once downloaded and extracted, just open the ISO Burner and load the .iso file.

But I cannot install any ISO burner as I do not have admin right LOL

would you not just unhide the admin account on it in command prompt. Then when that is available use the command prompt to reset that user password :) to un hide open cmd.exe type the following command (net user Administrator /active:yes) Then log off and you should see the administrator account. then when in that account go into cmd.exe type the following command (net user (and the name of the admin account) *) then type in a password to reset it