its been months since ive used my laptop....now i cant get into it bc i forgot the password

(helpful) ideas?

im willing to pay someone to get access

10/25/2005 8:19:53 PM

type in administrator in the user box

it may not have a password

10/25/2005 8:22:26 PM

google: hive linux boot windows password

10/25/2005 8:26:15 PM

negative

on the admin part

[Edited on October 25, 2005 at 8:27 PM. Reason : ]

10/25/2005 8:26:54 PM

10/25/2005 8:38:31 PM

safemode (F5 or F8 at startup) then go to users and delete the password from the account

10/25/2005 8:41:44 PM

nope

10/25/2005 8:52:55 PM

Quote :

"google: hive linux boot windows password"

/thread

This is the most valuable burned CD I have.

10/25/2005 8:59:03 PM

cd drive isnt really working

10/25/2005 8:59:31 PM

easy fix

press f8 during boot, boot into safe mode log into admin because more than likely you didn't set a password for admin, then go into user profiles and select your current username and delete the password.

next step is a bit more tricky if you made all your files private. Because you disabled the password it might not let you use your 'my docs' but the easy way around this is taking/transferring ownership of all your files. I can explain how to do that if you need it with screenshots. But hopefully you won't.

[Edited on October 25, 2005 at 9:08 PM. Reason : fda]

10/25/2005 9:07:57 PM

negative

it is asking for user and password before allowing anything else to happen, even in safe mode

no admin option

[Edited on October 25, 2005 at 9:12 PM. Reason : ]

10/25/2005 9:10:55 PM

you using XP?

if you are

are you using the welcome screen or are you using the login window? (where you type in a username and type in a password)

[Edited on October 25, 2005 at 9:15 PM. Reason : fda]

10/25/2005 9:14:57 PM

XP

using login window

10/25/2005 9:17:37 PM

have you tried

username: administrator
password:

enter

thats all you haev to do, type in administrator and hit enter

10/25/2005 9:18:52 PM

did you do the google search like people said?

it'll take you here:

http://www.grape-info.com/doc/win2000srv/security/ntpasswd.html

10/25/2005 9:19:11 PM

Quote :

"thats all you haev to do, type in administrator and hit enter"

The thought of soooo many computers with blank passwords on the admin account is scary.

10/25/2005 9:20:38 PM

you're telling me. I can't tell you how many computers i have worked on that had blank passwords. Customer would drop off a machine for an OS service but not leave us with their password so you just have to use admin to delete that shit.


the best part is when you can't access any of their files because you aren't the owner...then you have to sit there for an hour while you over right all their ownership rights so you can open their shit and back it up

[Edited on October 25, 2005 at 9:24 PM. Reason : fda]

10/25/2005 9:21:41 PM

yes, ive tried the admin -> enter

nothing

i have no floppy drive on my current machine, therefore i cant load the googled file onto a floppy right now.....yes, i plan to do that tomorrow if nothing else works

10/25/2005 9:26:57 PM

does it say incorrect password or does it say no user found by that name?

10/25/2005 9:28:32 PM

incorrect password

i changed it a few months back (at the request of the machine) and then used it once

ive since forgotten it

i have the previously used passwords, like i said, the computer prompted a request for a new password every few months...anyway, i tried all of the old ones (and what i thought was the current one, i didnt really remember changing it, which makes this even more frustrating)

still nothing



when i go to the set up after turning on power, all of the options are available, safe, safe with prompt, debug, etc, etc, etc.......all of the options require a user and pass for login

[Edited on October 25, 2005 at 9:36 PM. Reason : ]

10/25/2005 9:35:46 PM

is this a networked computer on a work network? sounds like someone created a security policy that prompts for password change. Which is why admin has a password.

10/25/2005 9:44:42 PM

this was a govt. machine (used on a govt network, but only by myself....the last time it was on a government network was over 2 years ago)

it hasnt been on a network or used online in over a year

10/25/2005 9:47:16 PM

but the security policies are local policies unless you reformatted because windows won't ask to change password unless there is a policy that says so.

10/25/2005 10:30:12 PM

i'll fix it for you. pm me, you can meet me on campus with it tomorrow if you want.

10/25/2005 10:38:49 PM

Quote :

"this was a govt. machine (used on a govt network, but only by myself....the last time it was on a government network was over 2 years ago)"

It wasn't sanitized afterwards?

10/25/2005 10:43:33 PM

yes it was sanitized....keeping the password login was at my request

10/25/2005 10:45:31 PM

jesus christ you fucking moron

why are you even talking in this thread.

GO TO MY FUCKING GOOGLE SEARCH

DOWNLOAD THE GODDAMNED FLOPPY DISK IMAGE

WRITE IT TO A DISK

BOOT YOUR SHIT

STFU

Quote :

"you're telling me. I can't tell you how many computers i have worked on that had blank passwords. Customer would drop off a machine for an OS service but not leave us with their password so you just have to use admin to delete that shit. the best part is when you can't access any of their files because you aren't the owner...then you have to sit there for an hour while you over right all their ownership rights so you can open their shit and back it up"

you're a fucking moron also. no wonder you're doing tech work in some flunky ass chop shop

DOWNLOAD MY FUCKING GOOGLE LINK JESUUUUUUS CHRIST!@!!1

[Edited on October 25, 2005 at 11:52 PM. Reason : sa]

10/25/2005 11:50:58 PM

^hey 'moron' it takes all of 5 seconds to log into safe mode and remove a password. and all of 10 seconds to click click and take ownership of the files. Its just a matter of waiting on the POS celeron to do the work. And if you knew ANYTHING about computers. you'd know you don't do an effective spyware and virus removal WITHOUT being in safe mode.


plz to stfu and gtfo


and because i WORKED in a crappy chop shop, we didn't use floppies. We used jump drives. The time it takes to load a 1kb file onto a floppy i'd already have fixed the problem.

[Edited on October 26, 2005 at 12:25 AM. Reason : ^faggots who have shit for brains need not be in tech talk ^]

10/26/2005 12:24:11 AM

Quote :

"The time it takes to load a 1kb file onto a floppy i'd already have fixed the problem"

Quote :

"then you have to sit there for an hour while you over right all their ownership rights so you can open their shit and back it up"

gee whiz i knew floppys were slow, but i never realized it took over an hour to load 1kb onto them...

10/26/2005 12:27:50 AM

Quote :

"all of 10 seconds to click click and take ownership of the files"

on my machine that whole process takes 5 seconds. on the average customers machine any process, including boot. takes an hour. Not everyone has AMD 64x2 4800+ for a proc.

and in a business enviorment its called multi-tasking. While one computer is transferring ownership of files, you can be checking the next customers computer in or working on another machine

and there is no other way around taking ownership of files with any google link if you want to be able to use these files again. ESPECIALLY if you formatted the machine and backed up the data. even knowing the password won't help you then because that user no longer exists and neither does that profile.

[Edited on October 26, 2005 at 12:31 AM. Reason : take your head out of your ass and learn something]

10/26/2005 12:29:43 AM

as far as i know, this thread is about getting into an account without knowing the password.

the thread should have ended with my first post.

i have no idea why anybody is talking about alternative solutions. there are no credible alternatives to my original solution.

10/26/2005 12:55:55 AM

Quote :

"the thread should have ended with my first post."

he speaks the truth...

10/26/2005 1:07:37 AM

erd commander works beautifully if all else fails

and if you dont have any other luck pm me and i'll get you in

[Edited on October 26, 2005 at 1:38 AM. Reason : ]

10/26/2005 1:36:52 AM

and its not "admin" its mother fucking

"Administrator" morons....

10/26/2005 5:40:30 PM

U need MS DOS 2.1 to fix this, guys

10/26/2005 5:44:21 PM

lmfao
quality thread

10/26/2005 6:03:34 PM

Quote :

"faggots who have shit for brains need not be in tech talk "

so you're here because why..... ?





[Edited on October 26, 2005 at 6:06 PM. Reason : .]

10/26/2005 6:05:03 PM