HELP ME PLEASE

[Guest]

I AM THE ONLY COMPUTER ADMINISTRATOR ON MY COMPUTER AND I FORGOT MY PASSWORD

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Christina

Start the computer in safe mode.. press F8 after the initialisation screen
has strutted its stuff.. then go into Control Panel - User accounts and
delete the password.. reboot normally..

While you have your 'technical' hat on, you might want to work at releasing
your Caps Lock key..

 

[chromesn]

hmmm. have to try that one. nice answer

Christina

Start the computer in safe mode.. press F8 after the initialisation screen
has strutted its stuff.. then go into Control Panel - User accounts and
delete the password.. reboot normally..

While you have your 'technical' hat on, you might want to work at
releasing your Caps Lock key..

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Christina

Your technical hat is working.. the Caps Lock is fixed already.. all you
have to be is positive about these things..

 

[chromesn]

stop callin me christina lol. anyway, i tried your suggestion, as a purely
tech exercise, and still got the logon screen requiring password. seems to
me, that unless one hasn't installed an admin account password (in the
usually hidden "administrator" account) this method won't work.
if one hasn't installed said password, then pressing ctrl-alt- delete at the
logon screen (to bring up the old style logon box) and typing
"administrator" with no password will get you in. correct?
course, if one HAS set a password on the admin account (not a user account
with admin status), and forgets it, one is pretty much hosed, yes?

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Chromesn

Booting into safe mode, you should be able to bypass the password part and
go into user accounts.. try the Ctrl-Alt-Del to get you in..

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem and ctrl+alt+del only takes me to the log on box and
tells me name or password is wrong even in safemode.