luv4u said:

PurpleJedi said:

If it's as simple as that...I will shoot myself.

Noooooooooooooooo !!!

So did I completely hijack this thread???

If so, my apologies Emeraldskies...you can fishslap me at your leisure.

OK.

So the password is not (blank) nor is it 'password'.

I checked out the results of my Google search & everything requires that I either have a "password reset disk" or that I purchase some password recovery tool.

ThisOne said:

why dont you just create a new user?

i have 6 users on my pc

How can I create another user if I can't get past the password window?

Tittypants said:

Are you sure that this "old" Laptop of yours wasn't "borrowed" from some complete stranger who wasn't paying attention?

lol,no.

PurpleJedi said:

OK.

So the password is not (blank) nor is it 'password'.

I checked out the results of my Google search & everything requires that I either have a "password reset disk" or that I purchase some password recovery tool.

exactly,and I don't want to have to mess with downloading a password recovery tool.

PurpleJedi said:

luv4u said:

Noooooooooooooooo !!!

So did I completely hijack this thread???

If so, my apologies Emeraldskies...you can fishslap me at your leisure.

lol,we are both trying to find out the same thing,so it's fine.

EmeraldSkies said:

PurpleJedi said:

OK.

So the password is not (blank) nor is it 'password'.

I checked out the results of my Google search & everything requires that I either have a "password reset disk" or that I purchase some password recovery tool.

exactly,and I don't want to have to mess with downloading a password recovery tool.

why not? unless you guess the password, the only way you can reset the password is by booting into something else first. you can remove the drive and stick it in another pc and access it that way, but that's more hassle than downloading a tiny file and booting from a cd/floppy/usb. you could have reset your password within 5 minutes of reading my first post about it, but days later you still haven't done it. you don't have to pay a penny either

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ss/ophcracksbs.htm

try that, its 500mb to download, burn and boot from a cd and the link above walks you through it

unique said:

EmeraldSkies said:

exactly,and I don't want to have to mess with downloading a password recovery tool.

why not? unless you guess the password, the only way you can reset the password is by booting into something else first. you can remove the drive and stick it in another pc and access it that way, but that's more hassle than downloading a tiny file and booting from a cd/floppy/usb. you could have reset your password within 5 minutes of reading my first post about it, but days later you still haven't done it. you don't have to pay a penny either

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ss/ophcracksbs.htm

try that, its 500mb to download, burn and boot from a cd and the link above walks you through it

Believe it or not I don't own a USB stick, so I'll have to go get one and try that.

Am I correct in thinking that you're trying to guess the user password - i.e. the password that you would enter when booting normally?

What you need to do is reset your user password while logged on as Administrator, and to do that you need to boot up in safe mode:

Turn on laptop, quickly press F8 (it might be F10 either, so try both - or it might actually say - some will give you a 'Press F2 for BIOS, F10 for Safe Mode' type message when they're booting) and put your laptop into safe mode.

When you come to the log on screen, an Administrator account will appear (with any luck the Administrator password is not set - most people don't bother). Click on the Administrator account, do not enter a password, and once you are (hopefully) logged onto this account, you can reset/change your password of your usual user account by using Control Panel> User Accounts > and Password.

Then you simply restart your machine and now you will be able to log on to your user account with the password you have just set in the Administrator account.

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PurpleJedi said:

unique said:

why not? unless you guess the password, the only way you can reset the password is by booting into something else first. you can remove the drive and stick it in another pc and access it that way, but that's more hassle than downloading a tiny file and booting from a cd/floppy/usb. you could have reset your password within 5 minutes of reading my first post about it, but days later you still haven't done it. you don't have to pay a penny either

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ss/ophcracksbs.htm

try that, its 500mb to download, burn and boot from a cd and the link above walks you through it

Believe it or not I don't own a USB stick, so I'll have to go get one and try that.

you don't need a usb stick, you can do it on cdr or floppy

EmeraldSkies said:

ThisOne said:

why dont you just create a new user?

i have 6 users on my pc

How can I create another user if I can't get past the password window?

i think u have 2 press ctrl shift F something and then u set up a new user

but i'm not exactly sure and if u press the wrong thing well sorry in advance