Locked out of windows

[semunky]

I am on deployment with my laptop that has windows vista. I bought the
laptop while home on 2 week leave and have not had it long. Upon buying the
computer, I reset the administrator password, so there was not one. Upon
logging in, I always hit enter w/o entering anything and get into windows. I
shut down the computer last night and when I restarted this morning, I
discovered that windows is acting like I have a logon password. I do not. I
can not log into windows. When entering safe mode, I reach the same problem:
I am brought to the windows logon page, and can not get in as I get the error
stating "that is an incorrect password" or similar.
I would welcome any help or advice, as re-installing windows is not a
pleasant thought. I do not have access to blank cd's at my current location
in order to make the boot cd in order to reset a password, which is why i
have not done so yet.

 

[semunky]

No, since I set the logon requirement to "no password required upon logon", i
do NOT remember the password...as there was NO PASSWORD PERIOD. Not even
before I set the logon requirement.

This laptop, again, was VERY recently bought in a short amount of time.
Although i said I was "home", i was NOT HOME, but 'home in the US' for a few
days. I did not turn on my new computer until I returned to my current
location. At my current location I do not have access to cd's to make a boot
cd. SO, I REMOVED THE REQUIREMENT FOR A LOGON PASSWORD UNTIL SUCH TIME AS I
AM NEAR A PLACE THAT I CAN BUY BLANK CDS.

Yes, t-4-2, i do realize that under normal circumstances, I would and DO
have logon passwords required....as i have set on my desktops back home.

Please don't post if all you will do is be sarcastic and not help. If you
don't know a way, then don't respond. What has happened is a windows update
installed incorrectly on my new laptop this last weekend, and reset windows
logon requirements that i previously set. I was looking to see, before i
completely re-installed windows, if there was some other way to restore to an
earlier point. I was not able to with F8 or F12 commands on startup to
bypass the need to enter a logon password-which had never been set to begin
with, and the need for such was set to "no password required upon logon".

 

[semunky]

t-4-2:
Thank you for the link, and I do appreciate the help. I have forwarded the
link in an email to myself so i can have it for future reference should a
windows update install improperly again and result in this problem.

I have just finished re-installing windows Vista in order to regain access
and use my computer. I was only trying to keep from losing my pictures and
videos that I transferred from 3 - 8gb thumbdrives to the new computer. This
computer was meant as a temporary storage until I returned home again in 6
months, and could back them up. No major harm was done and the problem was
resolved, although it was annoying to have to reinstall and lose a few months
of pictures.

Once I have access to a place where i can buy some blank cd's, you can rest
assured that I will be backing up any future pictures onto those cd's, as
well as creating a boot cd, and re-instating the requirement for a password
upon windows logon.