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re: Password? Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 8:13 pm Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) Nope... On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 7:56 pm, Adam X wrote: >I have a Password on my computer which is xp of coarse. Anyways when i start up and >get to the blue screen I click the Icon and it asks for my Password but here is the >funny thing I have completely forgot my Password (was on vacation for 2 weeks). Does >anyone know how i can get back on it without having to use the recovering cds. P.S. >I am using a friend's computer. Thanxs for any help i can get. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 8:39 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) Must have been a good vacation. On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 8:13 pm, triplate wrote: >Nope... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 8:41 pm Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) Yeh!...*LOL* On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 8:39 pm, Ricer46 wrote: >Must have been a good vacation. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 9:25 pm Posted by barry (164 messages posted) turn off your computer and unplug the power now take the side case cover off and find thet small battery on the mother board and remove it for about ten minutes then replace it and power up and reset your password to something you won't forget there will probably be some sort of clip or catch holding the battery in place BE CAREFUL AND TAKE YOUR TIME you may have to move some cables or wires to get to the battery. On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 7:56 pm, Adam X wrote: >I have a Password on my computer which is xp of coarse. Anyways when i start up and >get to the blue screen I click the Icon and it asks for my Password but here is the >funny thing I have completely forgot my Password (was on vacation for 2 weeks). Does >anyone know how i can get back on it without having to use the recovering cds. P.S. >I am using a friend's computer. Thanxs for any help i can get. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 10:10 pm Posted by Tehk (13 messages posted) I am certain it is possible, remember when you made the password, you made a reminding question? A possibility would be to boot up in safe mode, work at it before restoring. On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 7:56 pm, Adam X wrote: >I have a Password on my computer which is xp of coarse. Anyways when i start up and >get to the blue screen I click the Icon and it asks for my Password but here is the >funny thing I have completely forgot my Password (was on vacation for 2 weeks). Does >anyone know how i can get back on it without having to use the recovering cds. P.S. >I am using a friend's computer. Thanxs for any help i can get. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Monday, January 19, 2004 at 6:35 am Posted by John L (624 messages posted) This won't work. The problem was that he forgot his Windows login password, not his BIOS password. Resetting the BIOS isn't going to reset the Windows password. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Monday, January 19, 2004 at 6:57 am Posted by BKW (82 messages posted) Win NT\2K\XP Admin password hack.... This tip works for NTFS \ DOS formatted hdd's. Get\make a DOS boot disc. (see www.bootdisc.com) Boot the PC to DOS. Drill down to C:\Windows\System32\Config. Delete the SAM, SAM.log, SAM.etc...(not all pc's have multiple SAM files). Removed the boot disc and reboot the PC. Ctrl+Alt+Del. User Id - Administrator. Password - . Press enter. This tip should log you onto the pc with Administrator access level. So you can create a new user id, change passwords, delete stuff, etc... Use at your risk... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Monday, January 19, 2004 at 12:31 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) "This tip works for NTFS" and "Boot the PC to DOS" are contradictory an MS-DOS boot disk can't access an NTFS partition regards, Adam Bradley On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 6:57 am, BKW wrote: >Win NT\2K\XP Admin password hack.... >This tip works for NTFS \ DOS formatted hdd's. >Get\make a DOS boot disc. (see www.bootdisc.com) >Boot the PC to DOS. >Drill down to C:\Windows\System32\Config. >Delete the SAM, SAM.log, SAM.etc...(not all pc's have multiple SAM files). >Removed the boot disc and reboot the PC. >Ctrl+Alt+Del. >User Id - Administrator. Password - . Press enter. >This tip should log you onto the pc with Administrator access level. So you can create >a new user id, change passwords, delete stuff, etc... Use at your risk... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Monday, January 19, 2004 at 2:03 pm Posted by BKW (82 messages posted) You have to think outside the BOX... There are such things as an NTFS boot disk... that loads DOS and then loads an interpreter for NTFS partitions... so actually it can AND does work... For an NTFS boot disc = www.sysinternals.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Monday, January 19, 2004 at 2:19 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) The free NTFS-DOS boot disk is a read-only boot disk You can't delete anything with it For that you need to buy the full version Regards, Adam Bradley On Monday, January 19, 2004 at 2:03 pm, BKW wrote: >You have to think outside the BOX... > >There are such things as an NTFS boot disk... that loads DOS and then loads an interpreter >for NTFS partitions... so actually it can AND does work... For an NTFS boot disc >= www.sysinternals.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Password? Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 8:50 am Posted by aljernon805 (86 messages posted) did you get the sys pass fixed? On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 7:56 pm, Adam X wrote: >I have a Password on my computer which is xp of coarse. Anyways when i start up and >get to the blue screen I click the Icon and it asks for my Password but here is the >funny thing I have completely forgot my Password (was on vacation for 2 weeks). Does >anyone know how i can get back on it without having to use the recovering cds. P.S. >I am using a friend's computer. Thanxs for any help i can get. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum