Windows 10: Recovery password

My bought this Lenovo thinkpad e15 2nd gen at a yard sale now the peopl that sold it to me said that they forgot the password to the Microsoft account is there anyway I’d be able to get it and see I live all the way Texas Nd befor I go back I would like to get the it it from you for I can have some intertainment

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hdd password recovery

howdy. if this isnt the right forum please move it.
a friend has a 3 year old hp or compaq tower. they called me to help. they are not able to get into the admin accound, because the password was changed. it was changed by them when a popup told them for security they should change thier password.
after it was changed they could no longer get into the admin account with the password they changed it to, and the computer started sending out emails to everyone on her address list with porn and viagara type adds.
i ran anti virus and we found 20 trogans, virus, ect. everything comes back clean now, but we still cant get into asdmin account to format drive.she doesnt have a vista system disc, just the recovery partition.
1.. is there a way to get the password?

2... if not can i install a new hdd and install from her recovery partition?

3...will i be able to install new hdd and install vist from my disc or is the mb set up to not alow that?

thanks for any help, they are on a limited budget and are true friends to me and i would like to help them. thanks! sam

 

Data recovery software

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click the top spoiler and then look down to recovery.

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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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