Help Needed to Unlock Laptop

Red1708

Hi

Not sure if you will be able to help. Please see my other thread running here...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=847819

basically my brother has gone missing and prior to this he was very secretive over his laptop. We have tried to gain access to this laptop in the hope that we may be able to find some clues to his whereabouts but he has it password protected.

Any ideas as to how we can get past his password?

Thanks

Donnie

Of course it can be done, but will you understand how to do it?

Password Reset

More here: http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

No need to pay for a solution.

aerostar

Try

Keep tapping the f8 key as soon as it starts up, you should get to an options menu, select safemode, and if it gives you the option of login, login as administrator with no password.

Above assumes windows XP

Red1708

Thanks, will give it a go today

squarehead99

aerostar wrote: »

Try

Keep tapping the f8 key as soon as it starts up, you should get to an options menu, select safemode, and if it gives you the option of login, login as administrator with no password.

Above assumes windows XP

wont work if there is an admin password!

kato

A quick solution you can try is to boot up in safe mode - at the login screen you sometimes see another aministrator account with no password (though this depends on how the laptop was setup).

Open up this account and you should be able to change the password of the other account.

This worked for me with a friends laptop.

Ahh - someone already suggested that.

squarehead99

check ur pm mate

hubris

If you want to access his files, you could try a live Linux distro, like Knoppix. I've used it in the past to recover data off my Windows computer that I wasn't able to log into. I basically put the knoppix disc in the cd rom, booted into it. This allowed me to view all my Windows files *without* having to type in my windows password. I could then view files there and then, or plug in a USB key and copy files over.

Lifehacker is always newbie-friendly on this:
http://lifehacker.com/software/disk-recovery/geek-to-live--rescue-files-with-a-boot-cd-192982.php

squarehead99

just spoke to him in pm and hes managed to get into computer.