I have forgotten my admin password, but i can still login as the admin using the finger print scanner. how to i reset or find the admin password increase the finger printer scanner breaks.Windows Vista Home PreToshiba Laptop

Eamon If you have forgotten the password for the only administrator account on the computer, you do not have a lot of options to recover. You cannot do anything that requires administrator privileges unless you know that password. This includes enabling the built-in administrator account. You cannot even access the built-in administrator account in Safe Mode. The recovery options you do have is: 1. If you have an upgrade or full Vista installation disk, there is a procedure available that will allow to enable the built-in administrator account which you could use to change the password for the other administrator account. (This does not include a recovery disk that is supplied with a new computer) See option 2 at the following website.What do I do: I can no longer log in or elevate to an administrator account: http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Administration/locked_out_of_admin.aspx 2. You can purchase a program that can reset the password on your administrator account. Here is the program I recommend. A@PC: Windows Password Recovery Software. Reset Administrator Password. XP VISTA 2003 2000 NT.: http://www.password-changer.com/ 3. There is also instructions for creating a password recovery disk on the following website. Password recovery disk http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Although this is a free program, it can be a daunting process for anyone who is not familiar with such things as burning an ISO file as an image and creating it as a bootable CD. If this post helps to resolve your issue, click the Mark as Answer button at the top of this message.By marking a post as Answered, you help others find the answer faster. Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience

Here's How: 1.Click on Start and then Control Panel. 2.Click on the User Accounts link. Note: If you're viewing the Classic View of Control Panel, double-click on the User Accounts icon. 3.In the pick an account to change area of the User Accounts window, click on your Windows XP user name. 4.Choose the Change my password link. 5.In the first text box, enter your existing password. 6.In the next two text boxes, enter the password you would like to start using. Entering the password twice helps to make sure that you typed your new password correctly. 7.Click the Change Password button to confirm your changes. 8.You can now close the User Accounts window and the Control Panel window. 9.Now that your Windows XP logon password has been changed, you must use your new password to log on to Windows XP from this point forward.