On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:13:16 -0000, Will wrote:

Also, is there no "Administrator" default account on W8? With no
one logged in, control -alt-del doesn't bring up any options to
access 'Administrator'.

Yes there is, but you have to enable it first (using the Local Users
and Groups policy editor lusrmgr.msc) to put it up as an option on
the login screen. No password set by default.