Oh ok. So I'll restart the Dvr and it should show unlocked. The lesson learned with this is to give your admin account a new password right away when setting up the Dvr for the first time, and before you start assigning remote software the admin account. 

Short of that, if you want to change the admin account password and you know you have remote software using the account, be it phones or pss, first create a second admin account with admin credentials and log all your remote software into it. Or you can log into a user account. Then you are clear to change the original admin account password without remote software causing a conflict. Then you can log remote software back into the admin account without conflict,  if you want. Or another way to do it, you need to pull the network cable from the Dvr first, change the admin password in the Dvr, then change all remote software passwords to the new one for the admin account, then plug the network cable back in. 

The odd moral of the story, set all your remote accounts passwords when you first set up a new unit, because changing passwords after the fact can be complicated.