Password help?????

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I am messing with my brand new macbook. I have not entered a password or anything when setting this macbook up, yet it keeps asking me for my administrator password. Do macbooks come preinstalled with a password or something? What do i do?
 
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If you never set a password just click OK. Go to System Preferences -> Accounts and set your admin password there
 
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you should have created an admin account when you first started up...i dont know it has been a while

go to system preferences > accounts and then create an admin account on your computer if you dont have one

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check select your user and find the check box for 'allow this user to admin this compy'
-chris
 
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WHEW, Thank you soo much. Strange it would ask for a password when I never had one set originally. I just set a new password and was good to go. Guess you cant do admin work without a password set. Thanks again
 

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