Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. August 30, September 3, Situation 1. Change Administrator Password in Windows Vista with Administrator Privileges If you have not selected a password for the administrator account in Windows Vista and would like to change it, then carry out the following steps.
Retype the password to confirm it. Situation 2. On the subsequent screen, you'll find an easy way to turn off UAC. There is another possible wrinkle on Method 2. It is possible to set a password for your Administrator account. But there's another way to manage user accounts: the User Accounts Control Panel. User Accounts doesn't display any settings for the Administrator account until you're booted into that account. But once you're booted into Administrator, it lets you set a password for it without any negative effects.
So this is a work-around if you'd like to leave your Administrator account enabled. It's important to protect it with a password that's not easy to guess or arrive at by trial and error. Despite what it may seem to some people, Microsoft's decision to disable and lightly hide the Administrator account in Windows was a very good one.
Millions of people have for many years been living in this account -- many without even having set a password for it. Doing so makes it easy for malware and hackers to waltz into an account that has unlimited access to the operating system. By changing the name for the account on your computer that has administrative privileges, and by setting a password for it, Windows security is raised considerably.
The user experience for dealing with User Account Control elevations, although improved in Windows Vista Post-Beta-2 Build , is still a little rough. Microsoft has designed UAC in a way that keeps you from having to reboot between changes, but there are still too many nuisance UAC prompts. There's still development time to go on Vista's User Account Controls.
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More from the IDG Network. I don't care what's in it! I just want to delete it. He also made himself administrator and I can't get rid of that as well. I need help! Can one of the Genius's help me please? To change the administrator account, first create a new account. After creating a new account, change the administrator account.
To change the account, please try this steps:. Press the Windows key or click on Windows icon. Click on Settings. Click on Account. Now click on Family and other users.
Click on the user account you are willing to change.
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