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Steve
Hi,
This kind of question must have been asked a million times, but as usual
I can't find anything that helps me!
I've got a laptop with XP Home installed. It has one user account with
admin rights but no password (stupid, I know!). The computer used to
auto login to this account, presumably because it was the only one.
I then installed some software on my computer which required a reboot.
Since doing so, I am faced with a login dialog upon reboot, with my
username in the username box. However, pressing Enter (no password)
reports an incorrect password error! I've never had a password...Why has
this happened? I've tried safe mode boot up, and when asked for an
Administrator password (which I never created, Windows was
pre-installed) again, a blank entry fails.
I have to get some documents off the laptop quite urgently, and as I
can't login, I'm quite stuck. I took the hard disk out, and with a USB
adapter connected it to my desktop PC. However, my documents folder is
inaccessible, Access Denied.
Any advice you can offer to either log back in, or access My Documents
would be gratefully received.
Many thanks for reading,
S
This kind of question must have been asked a million times, but as usual
I can't find anything that helps me!
I've got a laptop with XP Home installed. It has one user account with
admin rights but no password (stupid, I know!). The computer used to
auto login to this account, presumably because it was the only one.
I then installed some software on my computer which required a reboot.
Since doing so, I am faced with a login dialog upon reboot, with my
username in the username box. However, pressing Enter (no password)
reports an incorrect password error! I've never had a password...Why has
this happened? I've tried safe mode boot up, and when asked for an
Administrator password (which I never created, Windows was
pre-installed) again, a blank entry fails.
I have to get some documents off the laptop quite urgently, and as I
can't login, I'm quite stuck. I took the hard disk out, and with a USB
adapter connected it to my desktop PC. However, my documents folder is
inaccessible, Access Denied.
Any advice you can offer to either log back in, or access My Documents
would be gratefully received.
Many thanks for reading,
S