Do you know what to do if you forgot your administrator password? If you have found yourself in the unfortunate situation where unable to log in as an administrator, the following tips will prove to be invaluable. This type of error can happen to a person who has upgraded their operating system such as upgrading from Windows XP and your administrator account has been disabled. It can also occur if you have demoted all of your administrator accounts to standard users or somehow you account was disabled accidentally.

The problem can also arise from the administrator account being hidden from the welcome screen or you receive an error when you attempt to run a program as an administrator and are prevented from changing system settings and running many programs. Now here are a couple of options that you can do if you forgot your administrator password. First things first, try running you computer in safe mode. Restart your system and press F8 before you see the Windows progress bar. As soon as the boot menu pops up, choose safe mode.

This emergency Administrator account will allow you to fix your normal administrator account using the user accounts under your control panel. The second thing you can do if you forgot your administrator password is to do a system repair using your Windows Installation CD. You will be required to restart your system to begin the process and when asked, you’ll press a key on your keyboard to boot your computer from the CD.