Forgotten password

alimum4 · Forgotten password

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your help that is that problem sorted.

IainC

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!