resetting admin account password

Question

if i go to this PC and try to reset administrative password then i says it can lead to unreversible data lose of encrypted files and i dont know the password help

Answer 1

In base Windows, for one account to be able to be able reset the password of another account, that first account would need to be a member of the Administrators group.

So, if the account that you are logged in to the PC with already has admin access, there is no need to use the built-in account named Administrator. You are already an administrator.

Open a command prompt and run these 2 commands.

whoami.exe
net.exe localgroup administrators

Do you see your account (from the whoami output) listed in the net.exe output?

You tagged this as a "Microsoft Identity Manager" question. How does your problem relate to that software?

What is the root issue that you are trying to solve? That is, I have several PC's and VM's on my home network. I don't think that I have ever used the Administrator account. What are you trying to do?

Did your account somehow get removed from the Administrators group?