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Hello TheTalker, you have asked a good question and mckillwashere has also given good advice. Please allow me to elaborate.I have a question about the guide.
"16. Restart the computer – system logs on to the User account without asking for password provided there is only one user account. "
Could you please elaborate a bit? Provided there is only one user account. What does that mean exactly? There can only be one account and not two accounts? On my PC I've got the admin account and the offline Guest account.
For real? What kind of bad things? That's scary because I have a password on mine.
This Tutorial assumes that you cannot login to your computer. Perhaps you were short sighted and created only one user account and have forgotten the password or the password or possibly the user account has become corrupted.
Lets be clear. This Tutorial does one and only one thing. It allows you a way to enable the Default Administrator account when you do not have a user account with Admin privileges. It is not a 'crack' or 'hack' to allow someone to break in to your computer. If you have given your Default Administrator account a password, as you should if you need to secure your computer, enabling the Default Administrator account in this way will not allow anyone access to your computer without the password.
All user accounts from the Default Administrator to Limited User have a normal way to change the account password. Actually, Windows will regularly ask you to change your password unless you tell it to stop. What do you do when your account is locked and you do not have the correct password? If you use one account to erase / change the password of a second account, you will loose access to certain secured data. And if you use a bootable CD, for example to erase / change the password of a locked account, specifically the Default Administrator account, that account may become unusable. So, yes you are taking a chance. But when the alternative is to wipe the hard drive clean and start over with nothing, you may choose to take the risk.
This Tutorial allows you a way to enable the Default Administrator account. If you have secured it with a password, only you can then use the account to perform whatever maintenance or repairs are needed, like replacing a forgotten /corrupt password on one of your other accounts, giving one of your other accounts Administrative privileges, or creating a new account to replace a corrupt one. Afterwards, you should hide or 'disable' the Default Administrator account for use in the next emergency. Because if you use the Default Administrator account for everyday use and it gets corrupted, your only option is to wipe the hard drive clean and start over. I say that with the assumption that a user concerned enough to make back-ups most likely understands the risk and will avoid using the Default Administrator account for daily use.
Cheers!
Robert
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