Windows 10: MS Windows 10 has let the admin user in without entering password

So the weirdest thing happened just now:I was sitting in front of the locked screen of my PC with password protected admin account. The HP.Smart.exe popup came up, asking to "make changes to this PC" see the screenshot below. The app is from a verified publisher HP Inc, this one https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfhwlh?hl=en-US.I didn't touch the keyboard. After a minute or two the popup disappeared and I suddenly see my desktop. Logged in already. Without entering the password! How is this even possible? Edition Windows 10 ProVersion 2009Installed on ‎20/‎07/‎2020OS Build 19045.5854

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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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Windows 10: Admin password and user ID changed - cannot change to original ID to login.

Hi,

Greetings..

You need a local user account if you need to use PC,For that you need to create super admin account.

Try this steps.

There is an inbuilt admin account in Windows known as Super admin account.

if you wish you can enable it,using the following steps.

• on your login screen,hold Shift key and Press restart.

• It will boot into safe mode.

• On that,click on troubleshoot->advanced-> Command Prompt.

type the following command in command prompt.

net user Administrator /active:yes ( leave one Space after Administrator.)

Hit Enter.

You Will get a confirmation message stating Command Completed successfully.

Now,Restart your PC again and click on new admin account that displays ( which doesn't require any Password)

And Create a new user account..

Hope it is helpful.

 

Elevation error when trying to enter admin password


OK, than means that you are trying to run a program elevated from a standard account, not admin account. In that case you have to select the Windows built-in administrator account from the list and use it:




By default the built-in administrator account has no password, leave the password box empty if you have not manually set a password for this account.

If the built-in administrator account is not shown, it means that it is disabled as it by default is. In that case you have to sign in to Windows with a local admin account and go to Computer Management (right click Start, select Computer Management). When there, select Local Users and Groups > Users, and double click the Administrator account to open its properties, or right click it and select Properties:




In Properties dialog unselect Account is disabled and click OK to save the changed properties:




Administrator account - Enable or Disable in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Now you can go back to your standard Windows user account and select the built-in administrator from the list when you want to run an application elevated.