Forgot administrator password

I put in an Administrator password but my iMac says that I have the wrong one (I left myself a hint, but it still says the password is incorrect). I can't upgrade to Mavericks or do any other upgrade. How do I re-set my Adminsitrator's password?

Please click Password Reset Lion & Mountain Lion or you can also use Reset the user password in OS X Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks: Apple Support Communities

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    Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
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Keychain
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1544

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Presently i am working in CE 7.1 -trial version. I started my SAPMMC today. I forgot my administrator's password so i was unable to login into the portal. Then i activated the Emergency user. Logged into portal as SAP* and changed the administrator password. Then i logged off. De-activated the Emergency user from the Configtool and set the administrator password from the secure store. Then i restarted the SAPMMC. However after this jstart.exe would try to start but it would stop after certain no. of seconds. Hence i am unable to open SAPMMC and since i still dont know administrator password i cannot unistall.
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