Our company gives employees with laptops admin rights, but they do run into many problems. The employee is responsible for backing up their own data and so if you bring in your laptop and it's not working because of something you did, they just erase the drive and reimage it back to day one and your own files you had on there will be gone too. happens a lot. My brother works for a company and I don't know how they have it set up, but it checks your rights if your own their network and he says that somehow it changes your rights back to a regular account if it detects that your an admin. I'm not sure how that works, and I'd like to see that in person. Anyway, I'm sure they do sell progams that can reset admin passwords, but I would advise against it. Usually the company keeps the administrator password a standard so if you get locked out they can log on as admin and reset your password. But if you change the admin password and then get locked out then your LAN support guy won't be able to help anymore since he won't be able to get in with his standard password. You'll proabably end up getting into trouble, and they will probably do what my company does- just reimage it which will erase all your work files on that drive. I would advise against it. Also if you do have to bring it in to be serviced it won't take them long to figure out you've been hacking the system. You should just pick up a laptop for yourself.