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c4rsa-sport
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26th Jan 10 at 20:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i know this might seem a long shot but, i put a password on my laptop, now i havent used it for a while went to use it today and cant for the life of me remember what it is. Its running windows vista, if anybody knows how to get around this please get in touch.

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James_DT
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26th Jan 10 at 20:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Boot ntpasswd off SystemRescueCD, reset password.
IIRC it's fairly obvious how once you boot it.
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26th Jan 10 at 20:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
c4rsa-sport
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26th Jan 10 at 21:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

would i save that onto a cd, or usb stick and then just plug it in my laptop on start up?? would this affect any of the data i have on my laptop?
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26th Jan 10 at 22:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Yeah, there's instructions for using it from either a CD or USB drive on the site.
Once you boot it, it'll ask you which image you want to boot, choose ntpasswd and it's plain sailing from there.
It'll only mess up the data if you use encryption.
jamied
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26th Jan 10 at 23:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

boot into safemode and manage accounts?>
Matty SRi
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27th Jan 10 at 16:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

not sure about vista, but on xp u can boot in safe mood then go to accounts and change the password there without knowing the old 1
c4rsa-sport
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27th Jan 10 at 17:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

im sorry to be a pain, but when i boot in safe mode by pressing F8, the screen comes up with safemode, safemode with networking, safemode with command prompt... which 1 do i use?
Matty SRi
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27th Jan 10 at 17:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

just safemode
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27th Jan 10 at 17:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

but even still when i open in safemode i just still get the same screen just everything is bigger lol, where do i find accounts?
Matty SRi
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27th Jan 10 at 17:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

control panel
Matty SRi
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doesnt it have an admintistrator or guest when u go to the login screen in safemode? usually u click on admin and it lets u straight in, then go into accounts and change password
c4rsa-sport
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27th Jan 10 at 17:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

this is the screen i have when it loads up in safemode
jamied
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27th Jan 10 at 17:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

nice login screen lol
c4rsa-sport
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27th Jan 10 at 17:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

lol background picture is just as good but cant view it
Matty SRi
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27th Jan 10 at 18:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

nah must be different in vista then mate... try some computer forum or summit maybe?
c4rsa-sport
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cheers for the help any way mate, ill see what i can do
jamied
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27th Jan 10 at 18:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102005-reset-user-account-password.html

 
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