Fear
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Basically missus moved out of her flat a couple of weeks ago and found a laptop someone had left there at some point, asked around if its anyones but no one knows anything about it 
anyway thought may as well make use of it until/if the owner shows up!
the only problem is it has a main password to get onto it, obviously we dont know the password so is there anyway to get on without it?
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topshot_2k
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windows password?
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Tommy
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Safe Mode then create a user
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Ben G
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if it's the password where the blue screen comes up and you have user accounts then yes you can. i just can't remember how 
if it's a system password then you would probably need to call in a pro
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Fear
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
if it's the password where the blue screen comes up and you have user accounts then yes you can. i just can't remember how
yeh thats the one, its the user screen but just the one user with password which i dont know!
might try the safemode thing, thats on start up aint it?
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AndyKent
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Wipe and re-install windows is what I'd do....
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Fear
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wouldnt have a clue how to do that tho!
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Fear
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wheres safe mode?
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Brett
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Just keep tapping F8 as it's booting up.
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AndyKent
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Anyone you know got an XP installation disc?
Just put one of those in, wipe the hard drive and re-install...all done off the disc easy peasy.
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Steve
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safe mode wont let you get in without a password lol do you really think it would be that easy.
i can point you in the direction of a free tool you can write to floppy that blanks the admin password if you want it
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abdus
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it might be that the administrative password is blank
which windows is it running?
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Brett
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If it's XP Home then the admin pass will probs be blank, so safe mode would work. I used to do this on my brothers laptop.
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Steve
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ctrl-alt-del twice at the logon screen will bring up a box to change the username to administrator if its windows xp using the fancy logon
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Dan Lewis
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i have a program you can use, put it on to a floppy disc boot off floppy and it will let you create and delete and change passwords
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Doug
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Im sure there are easier ways to do it but what I would do is download Knoppix and boot that from the CD. From there you can explore the file system and make a copy of the password file. Then de-crypt the file with a program you can get online.
That way you could use the computer without wipping it. Might be some stuff on there that is interesting lol
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Tommy
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
safe mode wont let you get in without a password lol do you really think it would be that easy.
i can point you in the direction of a free tool you can write to floppy that blanks the admin password if you want it
It will let u in without a password it is that easy
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