On Windows PC, without administrator privileges, you won’t perform a lot of tasks. Only as an administrator can you have the full right to use a PC. If you have ever set password for your administrator account for login to Windows, but later forgot the password and lost privileges to access your Windows PC as administrator, what can you do? Take it easy. You still can get Windows administrator privileges without a password.

Mar 30, 2018  Hi all, I'm trying to set up my first windows 10 maschien with my development environment. And as I'm new to Windows 10 I'm asking myself to when to install with administrator account and when using the normal user account. I'm on the way to install:. Ja.

1. Get administrator privileges by login as a built-in Administrator account

While Windows installation, it generally requires you to create an administrator account used to log onto Windows. But actually, Windows creates one built-in administrator account while system installation. This built-in administrator is hidden and disabled by default until you manually enable it, and its default name is Administrator and password is blank if you haven’t changed it. The Administrator has higher privileges than any other administrator account you have created. If you’ve lost administrator privileges to access to your computer, you can get administrator privileges by login as the built-in Administrator account without password.

Tips: How to log into Windows as built-in administrator?

Only when you've enabled the built-in administrator account, can you log into it?

Method 1: Start/restart your computer. Immediately hold F8 until you enter Advanced Boot Options. Choose Safe Mode so that your computer will boot into safe mode and get into the built-in administrator.

Method 2: Once you type an incorrect password to log into administrator, you will be prompted 'The user or password is incorrect'. Close the prompt and it'll take you back to the sign-in screen. Then you can click on the Switch User and type Administrator to log into built-in administrator.

2. Remove password or add a new administrator to get administrator privileges

If you can’t get into your administrator account without a password, and the built-in administrator also doesn’t work, then you’ve totally lost administrator privileges on your computer. But don’t worry. You can remove administrator password so that you can get into it without password, or add a new administrator account used to log into your computer. Following let's firstly make two preparations.

Preparation 1: Create boot USB for Windows password reset

On another working computer, download and install Windows Password Refixer. Launch this software. Follow its guide to burn it into a USB flash drive. You successfully create a boot password reset USB disk when prompted Burning Successfully.

Preparation 2: Boot computer from USB drive

Insert the boot USB disk into your computer where you have no administrator password and have lost administrator privilege. Start or restart computer and set your computer to boot from USB drive.

Part 1: Remove administrator password to get administrator privileges

Once computer boots up from the USB drive, you can see the screen as below. Select the Windows operating system running on your computer, and the administrator account, and then click on the Reset Password link. Reset password to blank when prompted.

Part 2: Add new administrator account to get administrator privileges

In addition, you also can click on the Add User button to add a new administrator account. Then log into your computer with this newly created administrator account.

Finally, when administrator password is removed or new administrator account is created, disconnect the boot USB drive and reboot computer. When computer reboots up, log in with this new administrator account, or log into your old administrator without password, which means you get administrator privileges.

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We’ve got a Windows 10 notebook and an old game that won’t run on this version of Windows. I have install disks for Windows 98, but we do not have administrator access so we cannot install VirtualBox.

QEMU can do this, kind of.

Went to https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/.

Downloaded installer. Ran it.

But it wants admin password…

OK, went to Win 10 machine where I do have admin rights and installed there (both machines 64 bit). It went into C:Program Filesqemu.

Copied the qemu directory onto a USB stick and then onto the machine with no admin rights, just under the user account (C:Usersusernameqemu)

Opened CMD prompt and cd’d into qemu, which is where the executable files live. Ran

This created a 1 GB hard drive in native QEMU format (qcow2). So far so good. Tried to boot it.

OK, the accelerator probably needs admin access to install a driver or something (I’m guessing, and too lazy to find out for sure; for now I just want to see if something will work). But it might run (slowly) without it.

Note: this just says to read the CD from the actual D: (could also be an image file) and to boot from D:.

Booted from CD ROM!

Then install — no worries. Step through the usual tedious Windows 98 install procedure. But it is slow. The lack of acceleration is apparent.

Screen shot of the Windows 98 install dialogue inside the QEMU virtual machine.

Once install done, shutdown and rebooted with:

which boots from C: not the cdrom (D:)

Install completed OK.

Machine boots OK and runs but yes is very slow.

Put in game CD

Not found.

Cannot seem to be able to change CDs once VM is running. Need to reboot to change CDs. I don’t know much about QEMU. Closed down and rebooted with game CD in drive. Installed no worries.

Tried to install SciTech display doctor, but it could not find the info it needed, so stuck with 640×480, 16 colours. Tried reboot with -vga cirrus selected on command line, did not help, Windows 98 still just using generic VGA with minimal capabilities.

Booted without CD:

Conclusion and to do

It works but is very slow, though the host system is not all that powerful. OK for basic board games, but nothing fancy.

Having said that, I have not spent any time trying to optimise it and it looks to me like anything that does not need admin rights would work, and so I suspect the graphics and sound and all that could be sorted out if I wanted to spend the time. There might be something I can do with acceleration, don’t know yet.

The bottom line is that QEMU does give a working VM running on a Windows 10 host without the need for administrator rights, but it is slow. Could be useful for messing around with old files or programs. Good value a1188 110w power supply for mac. Once an application is open, it’s not too bad as long as it is not very graphics-intensive.