Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: UncleAaron on December 18, 2009, 12:10:28 PM
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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
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http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS304US305&q=Lost+Vista+Login+Password
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Thanks Allan, I'll try that later on.
I'll let you know what happens.
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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". :(