recover admin password

[Non Techie]

Help! A techie friend set up my son's mini notebook which has Windows 7. I failed to write down my Admin password, so now I cannot add software, etc. Can someone please give me an easy way to fix this problem. I did read some other threads and tried to restart the computer, press F8 and proceed in safe mode but it did nothing.
Thanks.....

 

[Pusspa]

google will show you there are ways to change the admin password even without knowing the original one by using certain linux live cds setup to do just this thing.

 

[Non Techie]

Thanks Pusspa but this mini Acer laptop does not have a CD drive.

 

[Pusspa]

you can do it with a usb stick also

 

[Non Techie]

Do you know of any reliable sites? I am pretty computer illiterate so any more info you can provide will be greatly appreciated. thanks

 

[Pusspa]

How to reset the Windows administrator password - Windows 7 Vista XP - 4sysops
see step 9

 

[Dwarf]

You could ask your techie friend what password s/he put on the notebook.

 

[ryo]

Help! A techie friend set up my son's mini notebook which has Windows 7. I failed to write down my Admin password, so now I cannot add software, etc. Can someone please give me an easy way to fix this problem. I did read some other threads and tried to restart the computer, press F8 and proceed in safe mode but it did nothing.
Thanks.....

the quick way and easy is ask your techie friend. and you can reset it the new password.