Awww, fer Chrissake...the hell with it.

I will leave the damn thing the way it is, okay?

I have no idea how or when or even why the password was created in the first place (I presume it was back when I bought the computer, right?...I can't remember the details of that day, frankly, I just remember the store and the salesperson.)

John, it isn't that I "don't care what Microsoft's "policy" is".....it's that I am dealing with something here that I simply don't know much about, okay? I just have a computer that I would like to be able to update its virus protection, etc, in the middle of the night (which it frequently does) and be able then to finish rebooting itself without my help.

That's all.

However, I have decided that it's probably better just to put up with it having the password...which I have NOT lost or forgotten!

I AM the frikking administrator, I am the owner, I am the sole user, I paid for this computer....I am the only human being who ever touches this computer.