26-04-2009, 18:28
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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.
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26-04-2009, 18:30
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Re: Locked Laptop
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26-04-2009, 18:31
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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.
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26-04-2009, 18:34
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Re: Locked Laptop
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26-04-2009, 18:47
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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
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26-04-2009, 19:09
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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.
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26-04-2009, 19:17
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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.
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26-04-2009, 19:19
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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.
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26-04-2009, 19:21
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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.
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26-04-2009, 19:23
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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 
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
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26-04-2009, 19:26
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Re: Locked Laptop
Quote:
Originally Posted by keyholder
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.
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26-04-2009, 19:37
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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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