Laptop help please- Daughters lost password

Tulip09

As the title says

Basically she has set up a user account on her laptop so when she turns it on you just get her name to access it which requires a password. Now she has forgotten this one and cant get access to it. When she types the incorrect one in, it says Have you forgotten password, type correct one. It does not give you the option to click here if you just cant remember it and get a new one.

At the bottom of the screen it says after she logs onto user account she can add or change things but how do we get to this bit if she cant remember the password she has put in?

The laptop is a Dell latitude D410 if that helps?

[Deleted User]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/gr/ophcrack.htm

Tulip09

Thank you davidmt83 - her laptop does not have a cd bit. Could i just download it to a pen drive and run it from there?

boxst

I've always used this to just reset it: http://pcsupport.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=pcsupport&cdn=compute&tm=9&gps=503_423_1237_764&f=00&su=p284.9.336.ip_p504.1.336.ip_&tt=4&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//pogostick.net/%7Epnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Steve

Tulip09

Thanks for the link boxst, i will have a read.

[Deleted User]

Tulip09 wrote: »

Thank you davidmt83 - her laptop does not have a cd bit. Could i just download it to a pen drive and run it from there?

See here: http://www.techrena.net/computers/reset-windows-xp-vista-7-password-usb-pen-drive-cd/

Tulip09

Thanks alot for your help because she has windows xp i was able to put it into safe mode on start mode and press f8 continuously which allowed me to overwrite her passwords then reset them Thanks again for the help.

Browntoa

windows passwords are a waste of time......takes me 5 mins to bypass , even on win 7

downside of passwords, data is not readable if you trash windows

use truecrypt to protect data

pstones578

Browntoa wrote: »

windows passwords are a waste of time......takes me 5 mins to bypass , even on win 7

downside of passwords, data is not readable if you trash windows

use truecrypt to protect data

Data is readable after you trash windows as long as the data is on a seperate drive/partition unless you have encrypted with a local account and have no recovery method for the encrypted data.