Windows password cancellation

[Saab Dastard]

"Windows cannot remove the password. Password and/or account policies require the account to have a password"

Try this:
1. Click Start
2. Type the three letters cmd into the Search box and click OK.
3. Type this command and press Enter:
control userpasswords2 (if you are not an administrator, you will be prompted for the administrator account password)
4. Single-click your account name.
5. Untick the box that requires users to enter a password.
6. Click OK.
7. Enter your current password when prompted and click OK.

If your account isn't listed, try this:

1. Click on start, right click on computer.
2. Click on manage, under local user and groups, click on users.
3. Right click on the account you want to delete the password, and click on the properties.
4. Check if “User cannot change the password” has a check mark.
5. If yes, then uncheck “User cannot change the password” and ok.

You probably want to make sure that you tick "Password never expires", even for a blank password.

It is not a good idea to still be using Windows 7 - I sincerely hope that your daily user account is not an admin account. It is a really, really poor idea to have an admin account with no password on an out-of-date OS.