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Hi, found this site & thought someone could help me !!

Ive been staying at my mums for a few months, went home & couldnt remember my password to get onto my PC (had to change it a few times) ive tried the whole F8 safe mode thing & even my administrator has a password !

i really dont want to do somethig that involves wiping everything of as i have pics of my son on there !!

Ive been trying to get help everywhere but no luck !!

Is there ANYTHING i can actually do ???

Many thanks, Kelly

xxx
May 11 '07 #1
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Kelly,

I dd the same thing and in SAFE mode I deleted my existing password instead of changing it and it worked.

Try just deleting it is SAFE mode and then rebooting. You can always add a password later.
May 12 '07 #2
~kelz~
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Thats the thing, once im on safe mode its still asking for passwords, theres no way i can get on to my desktop to change the old password :(
May 12 '07 #3
[quote=~kelz~]Thats the thing, once im on safe mode its still asking for passwords, theres no way i can get on to my desktop to change the old password :([/QUOTE

Try this......Switch off ur PC and remove the 12V battery from the motherboard and then replace it in the same position and switch on the system.
Hope it may help u .
May 15 '07 #4
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
[quote=sandhya rani]
Thats the thing, once im on safe mode its still asking for passwords, theres no way i can get on to my desktop to change the old password :([/QUOTE

Try this......Switch off ur PC and remove the 12V battery from the motherboard and then replace it in the same position and switch on the system.
Hope it may help u .
thats a BIOS password, that wont help unless you set up a BIOS login.
May 15 '07 #5
~kelz~
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[quote=RedSon]

thats a BIOS password, that wont help unless you set up a BIOS login.

Whats BIOS ????
May 16 '07 #6
~kelz~
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[quote=sandhya rani]
Thats the thing, once im on safe mode its still asking for passwords, theres no way i can get on to my desktop to change the old password :([/QUOTE

Try this......Switch off ur PC and remove the 12V battery from the motherboard and then replace it in the same position and switch on the system.
Hope it may help u .

ok will try it thankyou
May 16 '07 #7
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
[quote=~kelz~]


ok will try it thankyou
NO, don't try this!! It will not help you and it might ruin some settings in your BIOS. If you don't know what a BIOS is then you should not be messing with it. Your BIOS has nothing to do with your operating system. If you are interested in learning about BIOS then check out wikipedia.
May 16 '07 #8
~kelz~
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[quote=RedSon]

NO, don't try this!! It will not help you and it might ruin some settings in your BIOS. If you don't know what a BIOS is then you should not be messing with it. Your BIOS has nothing to do with your operating system. If you are interested in learning about BIOS then check out wikipedia.
i havent touched it, wouldnt no where to start x
May 16 '07 #9
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
Hi, found this site & thought someone could help me !!

Ive been staying at my mums for a few months, went home & couldnt remember my password to get onto my PC (had to change it a few times) ive tried the whole F8 safe mode thing & even my administrator has a password !

i really dont want to do somethig that involves wiping everything of as i have pics of my son on there !!

Ive been trying to get help everywhere but no luck !!

Is there ANYTHING i can actually do ???

Many thanks, Kelly

xxx
The truth is Kelly, that it is virtually impossible to crack a Windows password. It is designed to be very very very very difficult or else there would be no point in having passwords. However, depending on the layout of your system those files of your son are probably just fine and you should be able to recover them without incident. Then you can reinstall Windows and set your administrator password all over again.

What OS version are you using? Is it windows or not? What is you file system formatted as? Are you using anything like EFS or a third party disk encryption system? Can you connect to your computer over the network? If it is windows do you have a real OS recovery disk or one of those OEM disks that comes from the place where you bought your PC?
May 16 '07 #10
phytorion
116 100+
Theres away to change your password if you have access to the DOS command prompt. I'll tell you how to do it if an admin or moderator is alright with it being posted.

Eric


This is assuming your running XP. I don't know if it works on other versions
May 17 '07 #11
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
Theres away to change your password if you have access to the DOS command prompt. I'll tell you how to do it if an admin or moderator is alright with it being posted.

Eric


This is assuming your running XP. I don't know if it works on other versions
If you have access to a command prompt then you wouldn't need to change your password since you were already able to log in to use a command prompt. If the OP has access to a command prompt then let them say so. I would be shocked if they do given what has been said from earlier.
May 18 '07 #12

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