Reset user name and password

I bought a macbook air from best buy as an open item.  The previous owner must have set up a user name and password.  I try to download adobe but it wont let me bc of the previous username and password.  How do I master reset that.  Thank you

I had a Genius Bar appointment on Saturday for one reason, and one reason only.
I wanted buy a Lion thumbdrive for my mid 2011 MBA (which comes with Lion), and wanted to know for a fact that it would work on my unit. I had asked a question in the Apple online store Q&A, what version was being used on these Lion thumbdrives and was answered by a user that it was 11A511. Someone else in the Q&A's had asked whether it would work on the 2011 MBA's, and someone answered that it could. Whoever moderates those Q&A's had marked both answers as being correct. But in fact, the two answers completely contradict one another.
So, I went to the Genius Bar to see if could find out the real answer.
First, I asked if it would work. The Genius Bar technician first treated my question as irrelevant. He waned to contend that with the Recovery Partition, the disk was completely unnecesary, as one could simply repair any installation with their own drive. I countered with the scenario that I wanted the drive in case of a hardware failure that would leave the Recovery Partition damaged or non-existent, such as with a new drive. He countered with that I should then use the Recovery Assistant created "rescue drive", I could then download Lion and install it to a new SSD.
I incisted that I wanted the drive to be something that would permit me to be completely self-sufficient, even without an internet connection.
It was only then that he ceded to my request to find out if the build number was sufficient to use on my MBA. He both confirmed that it was build 11A511 (actually 11A511a), and that it was a build that DID NOT have the necessary components to work on either a mid 2011 MBA or a mid 2011 Mac Mini, as they require 11A2063 & 11A2062, respectively.
I asked if he had any knowledge as to when Apple might revise the disk offering to a later build or even the now current 10.7.1, and he had no information on the subject (after he consulted with other store personnel).

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