Lost Vista Login Password

[UncleAaron]

My friend has a little predicament. She was on her laptop last night, and said she was a little tired at the time. She changed her password, and when she woke up this morning she couldn't remember the password.

There are 3 accounts on her laptop: 1 admin (her account), 1 standard (her bf's), and 1 guest. If she goes into the standard account to reset the password it asks for her password. I've gone to Microsofts website, and they say you have to have a reset disk, or you have to re-install windows. I had her to try to go into the standard account and re-install...but it asks for the admin password.

Anyone have any suggestions??

Specs:
OS: Vista Home Premium
RAM: 1GB RAM

[Allan]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS304US305&q=Lost+Vista+Login+Password

[UncleAaron]

Thanks Allan, I'll try that later on.

I'll let you know what happens.

[UncleAaron]

The next to last entry on this forum, says to go into Safe Mode. As the computer was loading up, I constantly hit the F8 key and when the menu came up there was no reference to Safe Mode. The only option I got was to boot into Windows Vista.
http://www.ozzu.com/mswindows-forum/vista-password-lost-t73232.html

If I were to install any kind of software that would help to reset the password, I'm going to be prompted for that "password" that is lost.

I've also tried to re-install the OS and I have to put in that "password".