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I made an admin account on my computer but can't remember the password. now i can't get into my control panel.

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  • Enable the built-in Administrator account, see my answer on how to do that, using the Administrator account change the password to your existing admin account.
    – Ramhound
    Oct 4, 2016 at 11:45

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XP contains a backdoor entrance to administrator control. The following will only work if the previous owner didn't know enough to close the backdoor.

First, boot into Safe Mode: Start your PC, and press F5 before the Windows logo appears. (It may take a few tries to get the timing right.) From the resulting Boot menu, select Safe Mode. When the logon screen appears, it will probably contain a user you've never seen before, Administrator, that does not have a password. Thus, you can enter Windows as an administrator-level user.

Once inside Windows, you can use Control Panel's User Accounts applet to change the password on the other administrator account or create a new one for yourself. And while you're there, you might also want to add a password to the Administrator account in order to close the backdoor. But that's probably the case.

Link Taken From: http://www.pcworld.com/article/206809/admin_no_password.html

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  • Which kind of safe mode? SM w/ cmd?
    – amanumpty
    Oct 4, 2016 at 9:23
  • Just Safe Mode not with command
    – Ky TySon
    Oct 4, 2016 at 9:29
  • Thx, helped alot, back online again.
    – amanumpty
    Oct 4, 2016 at 9:33
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    How?, I pressed the tick.
    – amanumpty
    Oct 4, 2016 at 10:00
  • Yes it's closed now
    – Ky TySon
    Oct 5, 2016 at 0:26

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