windows password probs

[Guesty182]

just dusted off my latop which i aint used for 6 months and for the life of me i cant remember the login password... how do i get into windows?

cheers...

 

[Gareth]

try username 'administrator' with no password

 

[Andy.]

Some computer models have an interal switch that you can use to get around the password protection. Undo a couple of screws etc....

What model is it?

 

[Guesty182]

cheers... will do, when i get home.

Suppose then i go into control panel and change the original or something like that but does it then ask for the original before a new password can be entered or does the administrator log in cancel this problem?

 

[Guesty182]

its a dell presario or something like that..

 

[Gareth]

you log in as administrator and can access all user files/folders, you would have to recreate any users you want to use as like you said it will ask for the old password.

 

[Guesty182]

so if i cant remebr the old password then would reformatting the hard drive remove the password?? as i'm still going to have this problem next time i log on unless i use administrator?

 

[Stuart.Atkinson]

if its xp, reboot into safe mode, you will have the option to log in as the computer administrator. then goto control pannel > user accounts>click on the user> select remove the password.
Job done

 

[TheCake]

Obviously all these only work if you don't have an administrator password.... which you should!

 

[Andy.]

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305

Step by step process which may be useful if all else fails!

 

[sh33n]

If you can't remember any password to get into windows you can download a disk that contains a simple vm linux distro which will break the SAN account.

Basically means you can change the password.

 

[Stuart.Atkinson]

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

or similar

Most OEM installs dont set admin passwords

 

[Guesty182]

cheers people! will try when i finally get home from work!

 

[FiDoDiDo]

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

That's one of the tools that we use at work.

 

[Stuart.Atkinson]

lol, think many people use it