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By default, there is no password set for the hidden administrator account on Windows XP. When setting up this account and enabling it, the user must create their own password.

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In Microsoft Windows, the Administrator password usually refers to the password of the Local Administrator account. The Local Administrator is a built-in user object to every instance of Windows, the default name being simply Administrator. The account name is almost always changed by Group Policy, but the convention remains to refer to the account's password as simply the "Administrator password". Strictly speaking, and Administrator password could be a password associated with any user account that has administrator privileges on a given system. You will sometimes here the term associated with web or cloud based applications. But usually, the term "Administrator password" is most closely associated with Microsoft Windows.


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