NEEPS

alimum4 · Neepster Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 254 Location: Maud

My 12 year old son has managed to forget the password that he used to get on to the computer and now we are left with a computer no one can use, does any one have any ideas?

Alison

niceguyrichy · Moderator Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 178

what operating system is it?

if it's XP home edition, then you can just boot into safe mode and change the password from there.
anything else, I can get into, let me know where you are.

alimum4 · Neepster Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 254 Location: Maud

It is xp how do I get it to go in to safe mode. It opens the screen for the password within a minute and that is all that comes up.

IainC · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject:

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

Has some tips for how to get in when you have forgotten the password.

You will of course need to be able to burn a CD or put it on a floppy to boot from.

alimum4 · Neepster Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 254 Location: Maud

Thank you for your help that is that problem sorted.

IainC · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject:

Cool

Have needed to use those kinds of tools a couple of times when going on a site that someone else used to support and finding out no-one knew the admin passwords... oh and in one case, where someone had decided to remove a machine from the domain to do something with it, but hadn't checked that they had a local account on the machine first... Doh!