Help re automatic prompt to change password

Perhaps I am suffering from selective amnesia, but I honestly do not recall
setting-up a password when I installed Vista (clean installation, not an
upgrade). I have never been prompted by Vita to supply a password at boot-up,
log-on, or at any other point.

Now I am receiving an automatic message that my password is about to expire.
When I go into the normal password reset screen, Vista insists that my
Administrator account (the only account on the computer) is, indeed, password
protected and insists that I supply the old password before it can be reset.
I have tried to use many different passwords (from my pool of typical
passwords) and they are all rejected.

So, am I crazY? Did I install / set-up Vista without a password? Or, is that
impossible and I have simply forgotten the password? In either case, will
Vista lock-up and become un-useable as soon as the password reset countdown
expires? Is there some way to halt the automatic password reset function?

TIA,
Danny

The same thing happened to me while installing Vista on a MacBook Pro using
VMware Fusion. I called Miscrosoft support and they told me that they don't
provide support for their program on a MacBook using a virtual machine. Yet,
I've seen nothing on this on any documentation.

"DannyS" wrote:

> Perhaps I am suffering from selective amnesia, but I honestly do not recall
> setting-up a password when I installed Vista (clean installation, not an
> upgrade). I have never been prompted by Vita to supply a password at boot-up,
> log-on, or at any other point.
>
> Now I am receiving an automatic message that my password is about to expire.
> When I go into the normal password reset screen, Vista insists that my
> Administrator account (the only account on the computer) is, indeed, password
> protected and insists that I supply the old password before it can be reset.
> I have tried to use many different passwords (from my pool of typical
> passwords) and they are all rejected.
>
> So, am I crazY? Did I install / set-up Vista without a password? Or, is that
> impossible and I have simply forgotten the password? In either case, will
> Vista lock-up and become un-useable as soon as the password reset countdown
> expires? Is there some way to halt the automatic password reset function?
>
> TIA,
> Danny