Windows 10: Old company computer w/ admin locked username/password

Christine Ausman · Sep 23, 2023

Hi, So I have an old company pc HP ProDesk 600 G4 DM that us admin locked. Company never wanted it back and I find it difficult to believe they would make it impossible for these units to ever be used again in the event of something like this occurring. Is there anyway to bypass this so I can factory reset and use for personal use? Thanks in advance!

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Namslas90 · Sep 23, 2023

admin password?

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

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freeboy · Sep 23, 2023

admin password?

my repair windows install keeps failing due to "what is admin password" ?
How do I either find it? It is my computer and Ia am the admin or change it? this is for disk D and It is booting from c...

Kol12 · Sep 23, 2023

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
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To create an additional password-protected local Admin account if you are currently logged into an Admin account using this procedure -

[Note that at no stage of this procedure are you required to enter your current admin account password as long as you are signed in to it already]

Start button,

Settings,

Accounts,

Family & other users,

[Other users section],

Add someone else to this PC,

I don't have this person's sign-in information,

Add a user without a Microsoft account,

Write down the username, password & security QnA bits that you are about to use [somewhere readily accessible yet secure from loss],

Enter a username, password & security QnA bits,

Back in the list of other accounts you can now see in Family & other users, [Other users section],

Click on the new account,

Click on Change account type,

Select the Administrator account type,

OK.

Denis
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No. You will not lose your files from the old account.

You'll just be creating a new administrator account to sign in to and change/reset the password of your old account using Option 3 below.

*Arrow Change Account Password in Windows 10
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Thanks guys. Just confirming that the instructions have worked and all of the account passwords are sorted out. Passwords have been stored securely so they won't be lost again!

One thing I noticed after creating the temp admin account is that you need to change it to a standard account afterwards otherwise it will be the primary admin account.

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