vista password

Hi
I have a question regarding VISTA passwords which I hope I can get answered here?
I installed Vista and towards the end of the installation, I was prompted to enter a username and password. I entered my name but declined to choose a password at that time.
I am the only users and as such, I am 'the' Administrator.
Now that Vista appears to be running reasonably well, I decided to create a password so I wentt to User Accounts (via control panel) and clicked on "Create a password for your account". I entered and confirmed my password and then chose a 'password hint' and then clicked on "Create password" and got a message saying the "Windows cannot change the password".
What's going on here? There is not password to change.
From what I have read in this newsgroup, a lot of users are having problems with passwords for various different reasons, but I would like to find out why I am being informed that Windows can't change the password when there is no password to change. Can any users please advise on what needs to be done.
Regards
Dave

have you tried loging on administrator in safe mode, and changing the password on your user account that way?
"David" wrote:

Hi
I have a question regarding VISTA passwords which I hope I can get answered here?
I installed Vista and towards the end of the installation, I was prompted to enter a username and password. I entered my name but declined to choose a password at that time.
I am the only users and as such, I am 'the' Administrator.
Now that Vista appears to be running reasonably well, I decided to create a password so I wentt to User Accounts (via control panel) and clicked on "Create a password for your account". I entered and confirmed my password and then chose a 'password hint' and then clicked on "Create password" and got a message saying the "Windows cannot change the password".
What's going on here? There is not password to change.
From what I have read in this newsgroup, a lot of users are having problems with passwords for various different reasons, but I would like to find out why I am being informed that Windows can't change the password when there is no password to change. Can any users please advise on what needs to be done.
Regards
Dave

Hi David,
Try the following:
Press the Windows Logo Key and 'r'. This should give you the Run window. Type lusrmgr.msc and press Enter. Click Continue if prompted for permission.
In Local Users and Groups, click Users, then on the right, double click the account you are using.
Make sure there is no checkmark in "User cannot change password". If there is, remove it and click OK, then close the Local Users and Groups window.
You should now be able to change your password.
If there was no checkmark, then I'm out of ideas.
Regards,
Marc
"David" wrote:

Hi
I have a question regarding VISTA passwords which I hope I can get answered here?
I installed Vista and towards the end of the installation, I was prompted to enter a username and password. I entered my name but declined to choose a password at that time.
I am the only users and as such, I am 'the' Administrator.
Now that Vista appears to be running reasonably well, I decided to create a password so I wentt to User Accounts (via control panel) and clicked on "Create a password for your account". I entered and confirmed my password and then chose a 'password hint' and then clicked on "Create password" and got a message saying the "Windows cannot change the password".
What's going on here? There is not password to change.
From what I have read in this newsgroup, a lot of users are having problems with passwords for various different reasons, but I would like to find out why I am being informed that Windows can't change the password when there is no password to change. Can any users please advise on what needs to be done.
Regards
Dave