Jan 25, 2009 01:20 am Type in the password you changed it to. Ya, right. Do you have any other account that you can access? Possibly an admin account? If you cannot access it at all then unfortunately you will have to reinstall Windows.
Xp password hell
Posted on Jan 24, 2009 11:37 pm
Dematrix
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On my other computer we use a password to get into it. anyway, it was changed and now we cant get into xp at all, dunno what to do about it.
anyone know how to get around this at all?
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Jan 25, 2009 01:20 am Type in the password you changed it to. Ya, right. Do you have any other account that you can access? Possibly an admin account? If you cannot access it at all then unfortunately you will have to reinstall Windows.
Jan 25, 2009 01:56 am Admin
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Try that... If you turned off the admin account, you're boned.
Jan 25, 2009 06:45 am do you think a computer dude could hack in somehow? there's alot of stuff i havent backed up on it.
Jan 25, 2009 12:57 pm If you have another drive or are able to purchase one you could install Windows onto the new drive and slave your old one. You should then be able to browse the files on the slaved drive.
Jan 25, 2009 01:00 pm Open the case and remove the disc shaped CMOS battery on the motherboard for about 10 minutes. That'll clear the passwords. You'll have to reset the clock after you put it back in.
Jan 25, 2009 01:29 pm That won't do anything to the Windows passwords Herb.
You can still do a fresh install without losing anything on the disk, just don't format the partition and install a different partition, when you reinstall Windows, it will install to a new directory (usually Windows2). After you're done you can delete the old Windows directory. You will have to reinstall all your apps though.
You might/would lose the My Documents directory if you use the same partition.
Dan
Jan 25, 2009 02:28 pm That will work too Dan. I only suggested a new drive so that there is no risk of overwriting anything as long as the drive is removed. In a case like this I would buy another drive and a drive cage for the old drive. Then you could use it as an external drive later on. There are a few ways to do this to save the data.
Jan 25, 2009 03:06 pm Yeah I don't know what I was thinking. Has anyone tried these?
pcsupport.about.com/od/to...assrecovery.htm
Jan 25, 2009 03:13 pm Wow, pretty interesting there Herb. Haven't tried it yet.
Jan 25, 2009 06:51 pm I think ophcrack mentioned in the article is what you want. It may take some time but usually there is an option to simply blank the password as it's stored as a registry key.
It's just been a while since I've used any of them, so I can't remember what I actually used...
but it was a linux based LiveCD just for resetting passwords.
Jan 25, 2009 07:12 pm Ophcrack is the bet on this one. Its the easiest one to use and recover everything.
Jan 25, 2009 07:17 pm well im downloading that right now, but man its taking forever, dunno what Internet speed is supoosed to be fast, but currently its running at 36kb's sec.
hopefully it will do it though. thanks heaps for that Herb and deadcow.
if my computer ever downloads it i will let you's know how it all went.
Jan 25, 2009 07:21 pm oh yeah, old dog,
if i did do what you suggested about installing on another partion how do i get into the other windows if i cant get passed the password anyway?
dont i still have the same prob of trying to get into the oldy?
Jan 25, 2009 07:59 pm IF you install to a new partition or new drive you simply put the other partition or drive up and it will show up in Explorer for you to see the files in.
Jan 25, 2009 08:30 pm ok cheers noize, im still waiting for this download, its been like 2 hrs almost
Jan 26, 2009 02:47 am well that did the trick. had a bit of trouble with the getting onto disc part but it worked in about 2 minutes. no problem at all.
im really impressed actually.
cheers for all the help people.
Jan 26, 2009 10:54 am you need a stronger password then :)
Jan 26, 2009 12:38 pm Boot into safe mode, that automatically logs in as the local admin account.
Jan 26, 2009 04:01 pm But it won't allow him to change the password unless he has preset it to allow that. It doesn't do it by default if I remember correctly.
Jan 26, 2009 05:25 pm it just gave me the new password that it just got changed to.
i dint change it my Mum did as its her computer, but she totally forgot what she'd put in.
so now i can go around hacking into everyones computer. mmmwahahahaha.
Jan 27, 2009 12:35 pm I was saying boot into safe mode, that logs you in as an admin. Then goto user accounts and change the password for the problem user.
All depends on XP home or pro I reckon.
Jan 27, 2009 08:54 pm Ya, I honestly now don't even remember were I was going with that now that I read it again.
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