Help forgotten password

alyson2208

Hi everyone!

Im looking for a bit of advice for my dad, he need to get some stuff off his old laptop but cant remember the password to start it up.
Is there anything he can do?

Thanks in advance

fwor

"To start it up" - what do you mean? Do you mean the Windows login screen, or is it a BIOS password (requested before Windows even begins to load)?

What make and model of laptop? What version of Windows?

alyson2208

fwor wrote: »

"To start it up" - what do you mean? Do you mean the Windows login screen, or is it a BIOS password (requested before Windows even begins to load)?

What make and model of laptop? What version of Windows?

It is the windows login password.

not sure of model its a Dell laptop with windows XP

fwor

http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

Download the bootable CD version, read the help pages and it will allow him to reset any account to have a password of his choosing.

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patman99

UBCD also includes a nice program to reset Windows passwords called 'WindowsNTofflinepasswordremover' it even works on Windows 7.

chunter

If XP.

F8 on start up.
login as administrator in safe mode
Goto user accounts
pick account you've forgotten password.
click "remove password"
restart computer in normal mode.