Old Laptop help

awacko

Hi , One of my pals has been given an old laptop that a friend of his fathers got from work as they were going to bin them. It has windows XP professional on it. Unfortunately, it is password protected so he can't get in to use it and its very unlikely he would be able to find out the password. I tried putting in a Vista boot-up disc to see if it we could get it going that way, but it then comes up looking for an admistrator password. Is there some other way of getting in to the laptop so that we can make it useable or should we just give up and bin it ? Thansk

GunJack

hiren's bootcd, and use the password editor on the menu to remove all old passwords....easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy

Mista_C

Have a look here...

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

Fairly easy to make the disc as it is in ISO format and once you boot from it, in most cases, you just press Enter to select the default options. All the instructions are on-screen anyway.

spud17

Or, it does depend on the type of password, some are easier to swerve. Before burning disks try 'safe mode' (constant tap on F8 at boot) choose Administrator account. Possibly no password required, then 'Control panel'> Users, select the named account and alter it to 'no password'.

I regularly use Ophcrack

GunJack

spud17 wrote: »

Or, it does depend on the type of password, some are easier to swerve. Before burning disks try 'safe mode' (constant tap on F8 at boot) choose Administrator account. Possibly no password required, then 'Control panel'> Users, select the named account and alter it to 'no password'.

I regularly use Ophcrack

good point spud, but being an ex-works one, I'd put money on there being an Administrator password set as well hence hiren's and offline password editor.

spud17

GunJack wrote: »

good point spud, but being an ex-works one, I'd put money on there being an Administrator password set as well hence hiren's and offline password editor.

So would I, but worth a try for the sake of a couple of minutes.

debitcardmayhem

UBCD contains pogostick and lots of other utils too http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

GunJack

I do keep a copy of UBCD handy, but don't find it as useful or user-friendly as hiren's.....and it seems to take an age to load up

debitcardmayhem

GunJack wrote: »

I do keep a copy of UBCD handy, but don't find it as useful or user-friendly as hiren's.....and it seems to take an age to load up

Post a HiGunJackThis report and tick all the O2 DCM entries

GunJack

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Post a HiGunJackThis report and tick all the O2 DCM entries

here's one I prepared earlier

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 23:49:40, on 26/12/2011
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.17106)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\sched.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avguard.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avgnt.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avshadow.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Main\Desktop\Security Suite\dmt8.07\DMT.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HiJackThis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.google.co.uk/
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.local
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [avgnt] "C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avgnt.exe" /min
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O23 - Service: Acronis Scheduler2 Service (AcrSch2Svc) - Acronis - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedul2.exe
O23 - Service: Acronis Nonstop Backup service (afcdpsrv) - Acronis - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\CDP\afcdpsrv.exe
O23 - Service: Avira Scheduler (AntiVirSchedulerService) - Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG - C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\sched.exe
O23 - Service: Avira Realtime Protection (AntiVirService) - Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG - C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avguard.exe
O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Oracle Corporation - C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\jqs.exe

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End of file - 3095 bytes

It's only that big 'coz mrs G-J and mini-Gun #1 use bl00dy ipods :mad:

debitcardmayhem

Ha ha ..... :beer:
I would uninstall this
C:\Documents and Settings\Main\Desktop\Security Suite\dmt8.07\DMT.exe
and watch your BB fly south, my router has nearly melted :cool: