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Question posted by rimartin on September 26th, 2012

What Is The Administrator Password

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Answer #1: Posted by letigre92 on September 26th, 2012 3:52 PM

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There is no single administrator password. It was one that someone who was on your computer sat on. If you cannot get on it at all and cannot get the password the only thing you can do it reset your system.

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