Windows 10: Can't switch out of S Mode without admin username and password

This laptop, Lenovo Ideapad was given to me secondhand with probably an admin Microsoft account used to log into it and S Mode already switched on, which I don't have access to, pin, nor password, anything. I do have an account that was made for me and it is logged into, but when I go to Microsoft store, try to switch out of S Mode and press "Get", it asks for the admin account's "PIN" which unfortunately the one who made the account doesn't remember nor have it anywhere written down as she made the account on a whim.Clicking "I forgot my PIN" in Accounts > Sign-in options in Settings does

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admin password?

You can reset the Admin Password using Windows XP repair; See Here for step by step.

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admin password?

ok changed added admin password for d in safe mode!
Ok, now this is weird: XP repair will not accept my new password! WTF?

 

Forgotten admin password.

Sorry but "Admin account" might be a description. Is your answer to 1 that you are signed in to the built-in account with the username Administrator or do you just mean that you are signed in to an account that has admin status [an account that you have made at some stage]?

The account to select in the list is the one that you want to reset the password to. If that is the one you are signed in to then you'll get that To change your password press Alt+Ctrl+Delete message instead [and the existing password is needed in order to do any change].

You need to be signed in to a different admin user account in order to reset the existing one's password. By the way, you will lose all your saved internet sign-in credentials by resetting it.
- You could create a new password-protected, admin-level local user account {steps given in a separate post below} then sign in to it so you could then use netplwiz to reset the original one.

Denis