Creating a User Account Password

[Guest rbaiocco]

I was helping a friend set up Vista on his new computer and I thought it

would be a trivial thing to create a password for the only existing account

"OWNER-adminstrator" but Windows would not allow me to do it.

 

I went to CONTROL PANEL - USER ACCOUNTS - CREATE A PASSWORD FOR YOUR ACCOUNT

and no matter what I entered an error message returned "WINDOWS CANNOT CHANGE

PASSWORD"

 

(I don't believe there is any password currently assigned except "")

 

Strangely when I went to Windows Help, it mentioned that under CONTROL PANEL

- USER ACCOUNTS there should be a link called CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD which I

did not find???

 

I thought I would try to assign a password to OWNER another way and hit

CTRL-ALT-DELETE which has a "change password" listing. That entry calls for

OLD PASSWORD & NEW PASSWORD. Whatever I typed in that pop-up also gave an

error message "ACCESS DENIED"

 

I really don't understand. If there is only one account on the computer and

it is administrative mode, why are these errors coming up?