Windows Default Administrator User login Password

Windows 7 Enterprise install from CD, would prompt for a Username and the respective System name auto-populated as <username>-PC but it doesn’t prompt you for a password to set for the given username.  The default password is <Blank>.  One needs to manually reset the password to a certain value for better security practices.

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Windows Server 2012:  You’ll be asked to set a password for the default built-in administrator account.

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Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2:  You’ll be asked to set a password for default admin account “Administrator”.  It will let you continue the install even if you set a weak or password that doesn’t meet the criteria of strong passwords.

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