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Dec 25, 2014 8:59 AM in response to djdel76by a brody,Since you posted in the wrong forum for your operating system, and didn't give us your operating system, I can't give you a precise answer. Here's where to post once you know:
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2463
The support documents for changing your passwords are here:
OS X: Changing or resetting an account password (Snow Leopard and earlier) - Apple Support
OS X: Changing or resetting an account password - Apple Support
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Dec 25, 2014 9:18 AM in response to a brodyby djdel76,II'm unsure which operating system I'm in and can't get past the start up page so can't get to system preference.
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Dec 26, 2014 1:51 PM in response to djdel76by a brody,Startup the machine with command and S key held down at once. The Darwin version will give you a clue as to the operating system version.
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Dec 26, 2014 8:19 PM in response to a brodyby a brody,From Wikipedia on Darwin versions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
1.2.1 November 15, 2000 Mac OS X Public Beta Code named "Kodiak" 1.3.1 April 13, 2001 Mac OS X v10.0 First commercial release of Darwin 1.3.1 June 21, 2001 Mac OS X v10.0.4 All releases of "Cheetah" (10.0–10.0.4) had the same version of Darwin 1.4.1 October 2, 2001 Mac OS X v10.1 Performance improvements to "boot time, real-time threads, thread management, cache flushing, and preemption handling," support for SMB network file system, Wget replaced with cURL.[15] 5.1 November 12, 2001 Mac OS X v10.1.1 Change in numbering scheme to match Mac OS X build numbering scheme (e.g., Mac OS X v10.1 contains build numbers starting with 5 so Mac OS X v10.1.1 is now based on Darwin 5.1; i.e., 10.1 means 5 so 10.1.1 means 5.1, etc.) 5.5 June 5, 2002 Mac OS X v10.1.5 Last release of "Puma" 6.0.1 September 23, 2002 Mac OS X v10.2(Darwin 6.0.2) GCC upgraded from 2 to 3.1, IPv6 and IPSec support, mDNSResponder service discovery daemon (Rendezvous), addition of CUPS, Ruby, and Python, journaling support in HFS+ (Darwin 6.2), application profiles ("pre-heat files") for faster program launching.[16] 6.8 October 3, 2003 Mac OS X v10.2.8 Last release of "Jaguar" 7.0 October 24, 2003 Mac OS X v10.3 BSD layer synchronized with FreeBSD 5, automatic file defragmentation, hot-file clustering, and optional case sensitivity in HFS+, bash instead of tcsh as default shell, read-only NTFS support (Darwin 7.9).[17] 7.9 April 15, 2005 Mac OS X v10.3.9 Last release of "Panther" 8.0 April 29, 2005 Mac OS X v10.4
Mac OS X for Apple TV (Darwin 8.8.2)Stable kernel programming interface, finer-grained kernel locking, 64-bit BSD layer, launchd service management framework, extended file attributes, access control lists, commands such as cp and mvupdated to preserve extended attributes and resource forks.[18] 8.11 November 14, 2007 Mac OS X v10.4.11 Last release of "Tiger" 9.0 October 26, 2007 iPhone OS 1(Darwin 9.0.0d1)
Mac OS X v10.5Full POSIX compliance, improved hierarchical process scheduling model, dynamically allocated swap files, dynamic resource limits (for files and processes), process sandboxing, address space layout randomization, DTrace tracing framework, file system events daemon, directory hard links, Apache 1.3 and PHP 4 updated to Apache 2.2 and PHP 5, read-only ZFS support.[19] 9.8 August 5, 2009 Mac OS X v10.5.8 Last release of "Leopard" 10.0 August 28, 2009 Mac OS X v10.6
iOS 4End of official support for PowerPC architecture (although several fat binaries, such as Kernel, still contain PPC images); 64-bit kernel and drivers, libdispatch task parallelization framework, OpenCLheterogeneous computing framework, support for blocks in C, transparent file compression in HFS+.[20] 10.8 June 23, 2011 Mac OS X v10.6.8 Last release of "Snow Leopard" 11.0.0 July 20, 2011 Mac OS X v10.7 XNU no longer supports PPC binaries (fat binary only for i386, x86_64). XNU requires an x86_64 processor. Improved sandboxing of applications 11.4.2 October 4, 2012 Mac OS X v10.7.5 Last release of "Lion", supplemental 12.0.0 February 16, 2012 OS X v10.8 Code named "Mountain Lion"; the word "Mac" has been dropped from the name 12.5.0 September 12, 2013 OS X v10.8.5 Last release of "Mountain Lion" 13.0.0 June 11, 2013 OS X v10.9
iOS 6OS X v. 10.9 is code named "Mavericks" 14.0.0 September 18, 2014 iOS 7, iOS 8 and OS X v10.10 OS X v. 10.10 is code named "Yosemite" -
Dec 26, 2014 8:21 PM in response to a brodyby a brody,Once you find the Darwin version, you can exit command-s's "Single User Mode" simply by typing exit and follow it by the return key.