Yes indeed you can, and you're right - it is a security loophole for the
home computer (company networked PCs always have their Admin accounts set
up properly and with password).

Type CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 either at the Command Prompt or into the
"Run" box, and you can use the "Reset Administrator password" button to set
the Admin password.....

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Jeremy Nicoll - news posts" wrote
in message nvalid...
"Don Phillipson" wrote:

Ctl-Alt-Del twice at login prompt does not create a new account.
It loads the (hidden) account for user "Administrator" created when
the OS was installed; i.e. it has always been there.

On one of my PCs which I bought pre-setup because at that stage I knew
nothing about Windows, the id defined for me to use is an admin one and
of
course I know its password.

But I have no idea what the Administrator id's password is, and wouldn't
like someone else to be able to use this double Ctrl-Alt-Del method to
get
to an Administrator login, in case the password it has is a stupid one
like
'admin' or 'secret'...

Can I use my own admin id to reset the Administrator's password to a
value I
will know?


Also, does anyone know what restrictions Windows sets on password
values -
can they be any length and include spaces and special characters?


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