Set up an account with administrator rights, but did not choose a password for it

Question

Essentially now, cannot complete anything without the non existent password. How do I reset it or create on. It won't let me see my account unless I login as a standard account, then prompts my admin account for a password that does not exist.

Answer 1

Hi Old Pappy59,
All account should be shown in manager account interface when you logon as an administrator if you did not hide them by using register.
I suggest you delete this account and recreate it with a password. Since according to your description you could not see this account in GUI as an administrator, you could run lusrmgr.msc to confirm user information or use
net user command to do this job if this account is really currently existing.
To run lusrmgr.msc
right click start->run->type lusrmgr.msc-> OK
To delete an account
net user [username] /delete
if you don’t want to delete this account, also could create a password for this account.
To create a password for an account
net user [username] [password]
For more information about net user command (also apply to Windows 8):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251394/en-us
Regards