user account password

david_cougar

help i have forgot how do you get back in forgot it on my laptop

McKneff

sorry, how do you get in where?

david_cougar

i have forgot my password for my laptop not used it a while,so am stuck at log in user accounts my hint is no good iether what do i do next

McKneff

phew, dont know, never had the exp. but I'm sure someone who does know will be along soon to help.

timbim_2

There's always the safe mode workaround if there's no administrator password, failing that, you'll have to go to some lengths to get back into the files, before a clean install of the OS.

gaming_guy

is it a Windows XP or Windows vista computer?

edit - timbim beat me to what i was going to say

fwor

Use the bootdisk password resetting tool here:

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Although originally for NT it works on all more recent Win variants including Vista

timbim_2

Does that work even with an administrator password in place? If it does, that exposes windows security a bit...

gaming_guy

timbim wrote: »

Does that work even with an administrator password in place? If it does, that exposes windows security a bit...

i couldnt get it to work & reset the admin account passwords on 2 admin accounts.


btw, i was running xp pro (which doesnt even have sp1 installed) in a VM when i tried this.

fwor

timbim wrote: »

Does that work even with an administrator password in place? If it does, that exposes windows security a bit...

Yes, it works with any account, including the admin account. I've used it myself successfully with XP Pro on an ex-company PC where the company IT dept wouldn't tell me the admin password.

I suppose you could say that it exposes Windows security, but if you have access to a PC so that you can boot it from a CD, you can do pretty much anything to it anyway!

omen666

Donload BartPE or Winternals ERD Commander