forgot windows xp password, what to do???

[traksta15 10+ year member]

my gf bought a compaq laptop from her aunt a year or two ago and she tried to use it today and forgot her uncles password (he died a while back, so she bought it from her aunt to help with the bills). Is there anyway she can recover the password? Thanks in advance guys!!!

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[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

I had the same problem with an old laptop, it sucked I never got it unlocked.

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

you ever sell that 1200d?

 

[jbizzle 5,000+ posts]

See if this works, I think I did it like this before.

Start the computer in safe mode, login windows using the Administer account, go to edit user accounts and remove the password for that account.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

No I didnt, its on ebay right now. I just sold one of my XTRs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[G.W.Kush]

See if this works, I think I did it like this before.
Start the computer in safe mode, login windows using the Administer account, go to edit user accounts and remove the password for that account.

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[bigaudiofanati2 10+ year member]

If you still can not get in use your windows cd restart the computer and boot into setup than select continue than it will ask if you want to try to repair windows say yes than it will reinstall a lot DON'T WORRY FILES ARE SAFE. Than there should be no password. I can not think off the top of my head but I think there is a way of doing it by going into setup and going into manual repair but as I said can not think of it right now.

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

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

 

[osiris999 10+ year member]

google it. theres many of free programs for this.

 

[schackel 10+ year member]

just take it apart.

 

[97gp 5,000+ posts]

Stole yourself a laptop, nice.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

password: IDDQD

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

Stole yourself a laptop, nice.

lol why would I steal a 6 year old computer with a 30gb hard drive?

 

[tinmanchris217 10+ year member]

You could always boot to a linux LiveCD, to get access to the hard drive, then:

a) edit the password file (not a clue where the file is in windows/sys32)

b) copy any files you need onto a thumbdrive, then reformat and install the OS of your choice cleanly.

On an older laptop, this might be a good excuse to wipe it clean. Should get it's performance back... and to remove any confidential dead-guy files.

 

[MakeshiftAudio 10+ year member]

start>run>type in "cmd">net user>net user x *>type password or hit enter for none>repeat last step

x is the name of the account you want changed. This only works if you have admin rights, like the one if admin in safe mode is allowed.