pc/laptop password bypass?

[cia260895]

1 of the towers has a password hint dragon and yes i tried puff straight away

try st george and wales

nope and nope

1 of the towers has a password hint dragon and yes i tried puff straight away

wife

nope

Calling previous owners not an option or was Bolt involved in this transaction?

ahem cough cough as stated in OP office relocation 

[bobAlike]

You can use a product called called ERD (emergency recovery disc) by Winternals for pre vista machines. The latest versions may also do vista but not sure.
Basically you boot the pc with the ERD disc in the drive ensuring that boot from cd is enabled or by pressing F8 (i think). Once loaded there are a few tools which can be used one of them being a password changing tool.

[TheWhisper]

if it has all the previous owners crap on it just get windows reinstalled.

[Ginger]

It is sometimes possible to log in to the default administrator account, and then delete the passworded account. I haven't done it for some time, but from memory try starting the machines in safe mode (as soon as you power on the machine, start tapping the F8 key, then choose Safe Mode from the boot options menu). Once it boots into the operating system, go to the control panel > user accounts, you should be able to create a new administrator account with new passwords.

Not sure if once you've rebooted if you will be able to go back to the user account area and delete the original problem account, it's worth a try though.

[Longines]

OP reads like BIOS passwords to me BICBW.

[Ginger]

If that is the case then removing the CMOS battery for a while would be worth a try, however, it may make the BIOS kick in with the default password instead - then you would have to find the motherboard manufacturers default password etc etc, hopefully not though!

I've never come across anyone using the BIOS passwords though, so never had to deal with this issue other than in theory.... pretty sure it can't be that hard to remedy.

[cia260895]

if it has all the previous owners crap on it just get windows reinstalled.

this is what my m8 said then he said have you got original disc? I'm like yeah lol

It is sometimes possible to log in to the default administrator account, and then delete the passworded account. I haven't done it for some time, but from memory try starting the machines in safe mode (as soon as you power on the machine, start tapping the F8 key, then choose Safe Mode from the boot options menu). Once it boots into the operating system, go to the control panel > user accounts, you should be able to create a new administrator account with new passwords.

Not sure if once you've rebooted if you will be able to go back to the user account area and delete the original problem account, it's worth a try though.

will try this tom night CBA anymore 2nite

OP reads like BIOS passwords to me BICBW.

BIOS BICBW   WTF?

[Longines]

Does it chunder away, whirr, start Windows and then ask you for a password or does it ask almost immediately you turn it on in big 'ol text mode?

The latter would be a BIOS password which none of the other suggestions so far would help with.

But I Could Be Wrong.

[bobAlike]

It is sometimes possible to log in to the default administrator account, and then delete the passworded account. I haven't done it for some time, but from memory try starting the machines in safe mode (as soon as you power on the machine, start tapping the F8 key, then choose Safe Mode from the boot options menu). Once it boots into the operating system, go to the control panel > user accounts, you should be able to create a new administrator account with new passwords.

Not sure if once you've rebooted if you will be able to go back to the user account area and delete the original problem account, it's worth a try though.

Will this still work if there is a password on the Admin account? Not so sure myself.

[Ginger]

It is sometimes possible to log in to the default administrator account, and then delete the passworded account. I haven't done it for some time, but from memory try starting the machines in safe mode (as soon as you power on the machine, start tapping the F8 key, then choose Safe Mode from the boot options menu). Once it boots into the operating system, go to the control panel > user accounts, you should be able to create a new administrator account with new passwords.

Not sure if once you've rebooted if you will be able to go back to the user account area and delete the original problem account, it's worth a try though.

Will this still work if there is a password on the Admin account? Not so sure myself.

I'm not talking about a normal account that has admin privileges, I mean the hidden admin account.  But, if someone has gone to the lengths of changing that hidden admin account's password then it won't work.

But, if it does work (as I've just double checked on Kev's PC) you will be able to remove any other previous admin accounts.

[Ecosse]

Download ophcrack live cd.

This CD boots and just lists all passwords after a few minutes.

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/download.php?type=livecd

I use it all the time when cleaning up virused PC's etc.

Dougie.

[Boba Fett]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[TheWhisper]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[cia260895]

laptop up and running tried the obv password and it worked FTW.....................

pukka piece for a freebie only looks couple of months old

now pc's will have to wait.......

[Ecosse]

laptop up and running tried the obv password and it worked FTW.....................

pukka piece for a freebie only looks couple of months old

now pc's will have to wait.......

Best just to flatten it and reinstall anyway cia, especially if the original MS sticker is onboard.

Bet you just wanted to browse the HD for some readers wives action LOL