Help! Second hand PC wiping?!

lauhol1980

I hope you can help. My sister purchased a second hand pc off her daughters friends mum. However when she started up the pc she discovered that the family all have their own individual logins to access the computer (of which she has no details eg username or password) We can log in by typing guest as a username, with no password and clicking OK, and then the desktop comes. When accessed we discover the computer still has all the previous owners photos, videos and downloads etc:rolleyes: . She has asked my OH to wipe the computer completely, eg, return it back to 'factory' settings and then reinstall windows xp for her. However, because we can only login as a Guest it comes up with a message along the lines of we don't have the authority to do anything.
Can anyone help us access or wipe this pc without the usernames or password?
TIA:A

bat999

Hi
If you wipe everything off the PC completely you will have to re-install Windows again afterwards.
Have you got the Windows XP installation disc CD?

gaming_guy

try typing administrator (or admin, im not sure which) instead of guest on the login screen. hopefully they wont of set a password for the admin account and you can get full access to the system

lauhol1980

bat999 wrote: »

Hi
If you wipe everything off the PC completely you will have to re-install Windows again afterwards.
Have you got the Windows XP installation disc CD?

Yes we have got an unused Wndows xp installation disc to re-install.

lauhol1980

gaming_guy wrote: »

try typing administrator (or admin, im not sure which) instead of guest on the login screen. hopefully they wont of set a password for the admin account and you can get full access to the system

Have tried that (both spellings) neither worked unfortunately :mad:

albertross_2

Some pc's also have a restore partition, to make it easier, depends on the brand

if anyone is thinking of clicking on britneys link, I wouldn't

Jo6673

OtherBritney wrote: »

It seems today I'm lucky!
I found one curious site But I can't believe that How do you think??
Any case it is private and very interesting information...

reported this idiot

bat999

lauhol1980 wrote: »

Yes we have got an unused Wndows xp installation disc to re-install.

OK
Perhaps someone on the forum will be able to explain to you how to go about doing the install.
(I haven't got the know how)
:cool:

Tulip

OtherBritney wrote: »

It seems today I'm lucky!
I found one curious site about president Bush. But I can't believe that there is true! :eek: How do you think??
Any case it is private and very interesting information...

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lauhol1980

:rolleyes:

bat999 wrote: »

OK
Perhaps someone on the forum will be able to explain to you how to go about doing the install.
(I haven't got the know how)
:cool:

Its not so much the install we have a problem with as OH has done this to a different computer before. It's the wiping 'clean' of the computer first, as we can't login to the computer, that we're having the trouble with! Would be so much easier if previous owner could remember their username and password to access the computer :rolleyes:

Browntoa

can the two of you who "quoted" the spammer edit the links out of your replies ...they still work