If you forget the password for the administrator account and need to recover access to WinGate, you can remove the administrator by doing the following.

• Stop the WinGate Engine from the system tray (by right clicking it and selecting stop) then open the registry editor.
• Find: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Qbik Software\WinGate\UserDatabase\administrator
• Delete the data for the Password value and restart the WinGate engine. Open Gatekeeper and log in as administrator with a blank password.

We do not recommend running WinGate without an Administrator password. To set a new Administrator password:

• Go to the Users tab in GateKeeper
• Right click the user Administrator and select properties
• Enter a password in the password field and confirm it