[vistashootme]

My girlfriend was a tab bit upset with me last night and got on my laptop with vista. she put in a password and can not remeber what it is.

Is ther anyway around this?????

Help, and thanks

[Athanasian Creed]

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (v060213 - February 2006)
Petter Nordahl-Hagen has written a Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista offline password editor:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd

This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista system, by modifying the encrypted password in the registry's SAM file.

You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.

It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppy disk or CD. The boot-disk includes stuff to access NTFS partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together.

Works with syskey (no need to turn it off, but you can if you have lost the key)

Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!


If this doesn't work, Google "retrieving forgotten password for vista"



Hope that helps, good luck,




Ray

[vistashootme]

I put the disk in and it gave me some options. One of them was restore to an earlier date. So I tried that and it worked. Just like there were no passwords, administrators, nothing.

Go figure,

[rocker_820]

U can make a new administrator account by going to safe mode. U have to press F8 when computer starts to go to safe mode. Or u can change the password from command prompt.

[slorlkuk]

In XP, you're able to boot into safemode and log into the administrator account and from there, go to user settings and you can simply delete any persons password without having to enter the password itself. This allows you to log into this persons profile without having to enter a/the password. Don't know if this still applies to Vista.

[wilson44512]

i would put your own password in it so your girlfriend cant do that again