Forgotten password

BoGoF

Anyone help

Basically daughter has put a password on her PC and forgotten password, what can we do to unlock it, if anything

Thanks

gjchester

Rather then retyping it all see this thread

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1428879

scottishf

You could restart the computer in 'safe' mode and log in as the administrator .....and change the password to one that you can remember

bugeyed

Which windows XP or Vista ?

BoGoF

It is Vista

bugeyed

OK. Well hopefully nobody set an administrators password.

You could try this thread http://forum.soft32.com/windows/Forgot-Password-Vista-Home-Premium-ftopict379119.html

bugeyed

Basically, try logging on as administrator using F8 between boot and windows loading, if you get it right you'll get the option to log on as administrator which will probably have no password, so leave password box blank.

Microsofts answer isnt helpful at http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/66b61e8e-341d-453b-9edd-234301dfd7e51033.mspx

bugeyed

If you get in then goto users in control panel, select the account and reset the password, but you'll probably lose access to old emails as they are encrypted using the original password login as part of the encryption process

taxi97w

bugeyed wrote: »

Basically, try logging on as administrator using F8 between boot and windows loading, if you get it right you'll get the option to log on as administrator which will probably have no password, so leave password box blank.

Microsofts answer isnt helpful at http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/66b61e8e-341d-453b-9edd-234301dfd7e51033.mspx

Or- restart the PC and keep pressing F8 until you get the OS Choices menu, select "Safe Mode". When safe mode is loaded click on Administrator and it should go to the desktop but this depends if the Administrator account is enabled. Change/set login accounts & passwords etc.

fiddiwebb

My oh My!

8 threads on forgotten passwords this morning on the 1st page :eek:

People have memory lapses in the last few days or was it the full moon

omen666

cscindy is spamming the forum