Windows Log In

[Guest]

We can't get past the log in screen. My young daughter forgot her Windows
password. A tech told me we would have to rebuild the whole computer from the
ground up! Is this true?
Any hope for us at all? Thanks!

 

[Matt Anderson]

We can't get past the log in screen. My young daughter forgot her Windows
password. A tech told me we would have to rebuild the whole computer from
the
ground up! Is this true?
Any hope for us at all? Thanks!

Nope. Download a password changing bootdisk.

Matt

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

We can't get past the log in screen. My young daughter forgot her Windows
password. A tech told me we would have to rebuild the whole computer from the
ground up! Is this true?
Any hope for us at all? Thanks!

If your daughter lost your car key, would you need to buy
a new car? Probably not - you would use your spare key,
because you wisely anticipated this situation. The answer
is the same for your PC: Use the alternative administrator
account to get back in again, then reset the password of
the main admin account.

Haven't got an alternative account? Reset the password to
the main admin account with this boot disk:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
then start planning ahead and create that second admin
account!