The need to reset or recover your admin password for your account can happen for a variety of reasons – we were once in this position when we messed around with settings on our Mac and then forgot the ...

It's easy to forget a Windows password, especially if the one you're using is long or complicated. If you forget your Dell Windows administrator password, resetting ...

If you want to change another user’s password on a Windows 11/10 PC, here is how you can do it. There are multiple ways to reset or change other users’ passwords in Windows 11 using Command Prompt, ...

This article is over four years old and some details have changed. For up-to-date help, read “Three Ways to Reset a Lost Admin Password in High Sierra” (5 July 2018). Several years ago, I was helping ...

Use one of these first three methods if you’re changing the built-in Administrator account name. The last method works only for regular accounts that have admin rights. This is the quickest method, ...

More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

If after you update your Windows 11/10 PC to the latest version/build and the administrator account is missing, you can try our recommended solutions below in no particular order and see what helps ...