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| Thread ID: 80554 | 2007-06-27 10:35:00 | someone put a password on my lappy | pou006 (11739) | Press F1 |
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| 563469 | 2007-06-27 10:35:00 | hi everyone if there is a password that has been put on my lappy by my little sister and she has forgotten it is there a way i can reset windows with a disk? But my next problem is that my desktop come with the disk installed in the computer can people help me please. |
pou006 (11739) | ||
| 563470 | 2007-06-27 10:49:00 | What OS is it? If it's XP/Vista (possibly), you can probably login with the Administator account which hopefully hasn't been altered. If there's no way you can guess the password (your little sister MUST know the password, she would have had to enter it in twice) then you have probably lost that account but could possibly still have access to everything on your laptop. When you turn your computer on, press and hold the F8 key. A list of options should come up and you should select the top option (Safe Mode). Once windows has loaded up you should see an Administrator account which you can login with. Hunt around in there, set up a new account and delete the old one after getting all your stuff out of the old one's "My Documents" folder. |
sal (67) | ||
| 563471 | 2007-06-27 11:05:00 | And if the password was put on the laptop BIOS, you have to return it to the accredited service agent with proof of ownership... And I completely fail to see the relevance of the desktop in the post? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 563472 | 2007-06-27 11:51:00 | sal, why can't he just change the problem user's password when logged into the administrator's account? | linw (53) | ||
| 563473 | 2007-06-27 12:02:00 | is there a way i can reset windows with a disk? But my next problem is that my desktop come with the disk installed in the computer can people help me please. I think he means he has no separate os disk, only a recovery partition. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 563474 | 2007-06-27 12:47:00 | sal, why can't he just change the problem user's password when logged into the administrator's account? Even as an Administrator, I'm sure you need to know an accounts password before you can change it. |
sal (67) | ||
| 563475 | 2007-06-27 17:13:00 | Sorry to ask this But how do we know that the laptop really belongs to you, what if it's not? Just wonder.. |
inova (12463) | ||
| 563476 | 2007-06-27 18:15:00 | Another job for a linux bootable CD.I also know that my local puter geek does not need passwords but sets up something with dos.He had immediate access to Admin and user accounts on a box I inherited with everything "passworded" and changed the passwords in a couple of mins for me. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 563477 | 2007-06-27 21:20:00 | Even as an Administrator, I'm sure you need to know an accounts password before you can change it. No. You can just change it. There is another way to access it if the admin password is unknown too but I'm keeping that one to myself without proof that this did in fact happen. Doesn't involve Linux either. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 563478 | 2007-06-27 21:49:00 | Good idea.I can see problems if a cure is about for public consumption. | kjaada (253) | ||
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