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moaningmags

26-04-2009 18:28

Locked Laptop

Looking for some help please.

My daughter has forgotten her password and we don't have a password reset disk. Am I going to have to wipe the laptop?

It's Vista Home Premium.

Sir John Luke

26-04-2009 18:30

Re: Locked Laptop

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

CHiLL

26-04-2009 18:31

Re: Locked Laptop

Have you got another user on that laptop? If you have and it had Administrator privileges, then you can log into that and change her password.

There is a way using some boot-up tools to reset the password, but they are really only for people who know what they are doing.

Halcyon

26-04-2009 18:34

Re: Locked Laptop

There are a few ways that may do it here:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...-password.html

zing_deleted

26-04-2009 18:47

Re: Locked Laptop

Hirens boot disc if its not in your arsenal it should be ;) I also have a disc called active boot disc that does not have copywritten contents

moaningmags

26-04-2009 19:09

Re: Locked Laptop

Thanks guys, I followed the link from Sir John's post, I downloaded the iso and burned it to disk was fine until it asked for the registry directory then it wouldn't take anything i put in.

Sir John Luke

26-04-2009 19:17

Re: Locked Laptop

Did it find the partition? If you have more than one partition (e.g. a 'recovery' partition), did you select the correct one? The default registry directory is NORMALLY correct for Vista.

moaningmags

26-04-2009 19:19

Re: Locked Laptop

It found 2 partitions, selected the first one which said BOOT at end of it.
Told me it was wrong so selected 2 and it seemed to load everything fine until it asked for the registry giving an example of Windows/System32/config which is right as I checked it on other daughter's identical laptop.

Sir John Luke

26-04-2009 19:21

Re: Locked Laptop

Not sure then. This has saved my bacon a couple of times, though I must admit that was on NT and XP rather than Vista.

keyholder

26-04-2009 19:23

Re: Locked Laptop

There is a linux program out n about on the net, within 2 mins gets your passwords for you but im affraid i dont have it. It's dos based and is bootable.

But there is always UBCD, or Hirens boot cd, as Zinglebarb says :) that way u can edit the registry how you like :D

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

Sir John Luke

26-04-2009 19:26

Re: Locked Laptop

Quote:

Originally Posted by keyholder (Post 34783431)

There is a linux program out n about on the net, within 2 mins gets your passwords for you but im affraid i dont have it. It's dos based and is bootable.

Wayfair

26-04-2009 19:37

Re: Locked Laptop

Hirens is by far the easier one to use imo.

Boot to disc.
9 next
4 password and reg
1 active password changer
1 choose drive
its normally the 0
enter
pick account you want
put a little X in clear password
press Y
done.

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