I forgot my administrator log in to my macbook air os 10.7.5

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.
When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu. Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow instructions in the dialog window that will appear.
Or see Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password and OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.

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Otherwise just startup the computer and enter your password.
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You can reset the password.
How you do it though depends on the version of OS X you are running.
On Lion or Mountain Lion, you use the following technique to reset the Administrators password:
Boot to your Recovery Partition, by holding down the Option key while starting, and then selecting the Recovery HD as the boot choice.
Once booted, at the top of the screen is a menu ..., select Utilities / Terminal from the menu bar.
In the Terminal window, type “resetpassword” (without the quotes) and press return. A “Reset Password” window will open. Select your boot volume (your SSD drive) if it is not already selected. Select your administrators username from the menu labeled “Select the user account” if it is not already selected. Follow the prompts to reset the password. Restart the computer from the apple menu.
If you are using the Keychain, you will lose your existing one, and have to start a new one, unless you remember the old password.

Logging In On A MacBook Air

So my MacBook does this thing where when it wakes up from being in sleep mode, I'm not able to hear anything. The only solution for this is restarting my Mac. Once I restarted it and tried to log back in, it wouldn't accept my password. I did the whole command r thing and tried to reset it which didn't work. I made a new administrator account and tried to change the password and that wouldn't work either. I also tried the command s thing with all the command prompts and everything with no success. Any suggestions?

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When trying to log in to iCloud, I get a "you can't log in at this time" message every time. I have no idea how to fix this issue. My password is correct since it works on my iPhone, and i have changed it too see if it would fix the problem. Any help would be appreciated since this effects me using Yosemite and my MacBook in general.

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Look at section 6:
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Now, the fun part if neither of those is the case.
You can also restart the system holding down the Command and R keys, and then from the utilities that open choose Terminal.
In the Terminal window type exactly:
resetpassword
and press return.
In the Reset Password window, choose the user for which you wan to change the password.
Type the new password twice, then do not set a hint, and click Save.
Accept the next dialog that opens, and at the bottom of the Reset Password window Apply.
Then click the apple at the left side of the menu bar and Restart.

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Try resetting your admin password.
Several ways to do this..
Here > OS X Mountain Lion: Reset a login password
Or here > OS X Lion: Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password

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If your install disc doesn't work, then follow these steps
1.Start up in single-user mode (hold Command-S as thecomputer starts up).
2. Type: mount -uw /
3. Press Return.
4. Type this: passwd (user's short name) Replace "(user's shortname)" with the short name of the user account whose password you wish toreset. If you are not sure what the account name is, you can get a list of usernames by typing: ls /Users
5. Press Return.
6. Enter a new user password.
7. Press Return.
8. Type: reboot
9. Press Return.

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sir ,
     i have forgot my administrator password in windows 7 .
     how can i easily solve that problem ?
     and my data is so importanat .
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I also add my answer here too.
If forget the password of your windows, the most important thing is backup important data, and then try to recover the lost password.
1. Reset windows password with windows password reset disk. If have a
windows password reset disk, you can reset password easy and lose nothing.
1.1. If you enter the wrong password when you attempt to log on, Windows displays a message that the password is incorrect. Click OK to close the message.
1.2. Click Reset password, and then insert your windows password reset disk (or other removable media).
1.3. Follow the steps in the Password Reset Wizard to create a new password.
1.4. Log on with the new password. If you forget your password again, you can use the same password reset disk. You don't need to make a new one.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/What-to-do-if-you-forget-your-Windows-password
2. backup data
" Use WinPE boot disk to boot your computer and backup your data.
How to create
a WinPE boot disk to maintain your windows."
3. If you haven't created a windows 7 password reset disk before, you can use Spower Windows Password Reset (SWPR) to recover your forgotten password in few steps:
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Step 2: Create a CD/DVD or USB password reset boot disk with SWPR.
Step 3: Boot your computer from password reset boot disk.
Step 4: Recover the forgotten password for administrator account.
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Hello bicolananggayon
You can reset your password if you have the installation disk for you Mac by following the steps outlined below. After that is done and you have logged in you should have an option to create a new Keychain password.
OS X: Changing or resetting an account password (Snow Leopard and earlier)
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Hi Kbennett411,
The article below will help you reset your administrator password using your Apple ID account:
OS X: Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4798
To reset your OS X user password with your Apple ID
If you incorrectly enter your account password at the login window three times, a message appears stating "If you forgot your password, you can reset it using your Apple ID". Click the arrow-in-a-circle icon to bring up the "Reset Password" dialog. Enter your Apple ID and password, then click "Reset Password" to proceed.
Note: In some cases, you may not be presented with the opportunity to reset the password after three incorrect attempts. If this happens, open Users & Groups preferences, remove the affected Apple ID, and then add the same Apple ID back. This issue could occur after upgrading from Mac OS X v10.6 to OS X Lion.
Note: Changing the user account password will create a new keychain. The previous keychain still exists and can be accessed if you later remember the previous password.
Click "OK" in the dialog that appears to inform you about the new keychain.
Enter a New password, Verify password and Password hint fields, then click "Reset Password" to proceed.
Click "Continue Log In" to finish logging in using the new password you just created.
Hope this helps!
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