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re: VISTA password reset.
Monday, February 4, 2008 at 10:55 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Deb
(758 messages posted)
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5bf12a40-12b5-4ca8-87c3-7741adbd15841033.mspx
On Monday, February 4, 2008 at 9:38 am, appleoddity wrote:
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>Has anyone actually successfully done this?
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>This is becoming quite frustrating. I have long been able to reset windows XP passwords,
>and I am starting to run into Vista machines where customers need the passwords
reset.
> I have tried probably 3 or 4 times now with different solutions that people have
>explained in detail and none of them have worked. So far I have always had some
>other way around it, but ultimately I need to figure out how to really do this.
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>A couple methods I tried require finding the Vista installation.. The example on-line
>will show one installation, where as the computers I have tried it on show at least
>2 if not 3 or 4 installations "available," although there is really only 1.
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>I hate Vista in just about every way possible and this is just one more thing to
>add to the list of annoyances. Does anyone know the secret to this password issue?
> Is the password really stored in the same way XP used it? (Doesn't appear that
>way) Most utilities seem to act like it is no different recovering a Vista password
>as an XP password, although, obviously something is different.
>
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- VISTA password reset. (appleoddity: Monday, February 4, 2008 at 9:38 am)
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