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| Thread ID: 53014 | 2005-01-05 07:58:00 | XP Home log in problems | Simon Tirikatene (6788) | Press F1 |
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| 310883 | 2005-01-06 08:06:00 | if as you say you cant access windoze.......get a copy of ghost on floppy and ghost the drive to cd first before you start playing round with it that way you got nothing to lose.........i OFTEN do this........ | drcspy (146) | ||
| 310884 | 2005-01-06 08:30:00 | Quite interesting how these seemingly simple things stump the experts. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 310885 | 2005-01-06 11:44:00 | Quite interesting how these seemingly simple things stump the experts. Severall of us including chill can get into it but the rules are against discussing this here. A search link/sujjestion was posted that will give some good pointers. Manufacturers help lines and M/s are less than helpfull in these situations for obvious reasons. If it is sent somewhere with real IT staff it can be fixed but they will charge savagely because they can. Some searching of this forum will show most of the relevent tools if the user is skilled enough for them. Part of the post relating to data recovery sujjests he is not, these tools are dangerous in unskilled hands. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 310886 | 2005-01-06 12:17:00 | That would be a massive security risk, if Administrator could not have a password . IIRC "Administrator" has to have a password on NT,2000,Xp . Welcome to the world of XP Home edition . Had a comp in today,I asked about passords when it was dropped off and i was assured there were none . Fired it up and bingo, Needed password to boot into the user account, Restarted her is safe mode,Logged in as admin (which has no password) then went into control panel and with one click of the mouse . . . . . removed the pw from the owners account . Which I'm sure won't go down real well when they pick it up . . . . . . :eek: Alternativly i could have used a boot cd that displays user passwords . :eek: Ringing them would have been my first choice but that was impossible in this case . . . . . |
Metla (12) | ||
| 310887 | 2005-01-06 12:29:00 | Welcome to the world of XP Home edition . Had a comp in today,I asked about passords when it was dropped off and i was assured there were none . Fired it up and bingo, Needed password to boot into the user account, Restarted her is safe mode,Logged in as admin (which has no password) then went into control panel and with one click of the mouse . . . . . removed the pw from the owners account . Which I'm sure won't go down real well when they pick it up . . . . . . :eek: Alternativly i could have used a boot cd that displays user passwords . :eek: Ringing them would have been my first choice but that was impossible in this case . . . . . Metla, Thats what Puzzelse me in this one . home should be, f8, admin, in . His username is gone and f8 isnt playing . Sombody has done something to it, its infected, its pro? Its been given a whole or partial pro upgrade? It can be entered buy doot disks still, one assumes? D . |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 310888 | 2005-01-06 12:42:00 | The data on his harddisk will be accesable with a boot disc, I would guess that the portion of his registry that contains his user profiles (including the admin account) has been corupted though..... | Metla (12) | ||
| 310889 | 2005-01-06 13:16:00 | The data on his harddisk will be accesable with a boot disc, I would guess that the portion of his registry that contains his user profiles (including the admin account) has been corupted though..... Metla, In which case salvage all data and thourough Scandisk/manufacturers disk check before considering next courses of possible action? D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 310890 | 2005-01-07 22:23:00 | Thanks everyone! I resorted to a full system reload - repair mode didn't work. As the reload formats c: I lost everything - but at least I am underway again. I did have backups of important stuff up to mid December - so can, over a few days rebuild my data from hard copies. I never learn that backups to disc have got to be carried out almost daily. Hell! - I used to do it daily with 3.1 - but got complacent with newer OS's as you assume they are past that sort of problem. Thanks again guys!!!, Simon |
Simon Tirikatene (6788) | ||
| 310891 | 2005-01-07 22:48:00 | When XP Home loads - there is a message : "To begin, click user name". My user name has just dissappeared? The screen is blank where it used to be? I do not use a password on this laptop. Usually just click the user name and I am in. Am trying to avoid reloading operating system repair disk - there must be an easier way to correct problem. Currently, I can't get into the laptop because of the lack of user name access. Thanks, Simon Tirikatene Press F8 into save mode and then log into administator then go to user accounts have a look in there for yours and change it (username or password) if so remove it hope this helps. come back to me if it doesnt |
pc_doctor (6775) | ||
| 310892 | 2005-01-07 23:01:00 | Press F8 into save mode and then log into administator then go to user accounts have a look in there for yours and change it (username or password) if so remove it hope this helps. come back to me if it doesnt Did you actually read any of this thread? |
PcNut (6639) | ||
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