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by ansugisalas
your administrator to do it for you.
If it's your own machine then hopefully you have the admin password.
by maclovin
...like you might be doing something you're not supposed to.
Admin rights are there for a reason. If you don't have them, you probably don't need them.
by twors88
You can attempt to login using the local admin account.
Username: Administrator
Password: (sometimes left blank, or admin)
Domain: ####-This computer
The ### will be your computers name
From here you can install software, granted you can get in.
by ansugisalas
advise people to do things that will get them in trouble, hey!
If it's not his computer, he's not supposed to go in there, and you're not supposed to help him. Not here at least.
If you're his cracker godmother, do it somewhere else.
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