 hayc59Im Your HuckleberryPremium
join:2001-02-26
David R.I.P.
kudos:20 | reply to hayc59
Re: [XPPro] Forgotten Password for Windows XP... OK that went well and thanks so much!!
NOW went to put CD into laptop and guess what?
no cd compartment!! { LOL}
any suggestion again and I thank you all
does have a usb port |
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hayc59Im Your HuckleberryPremium
join:2001-02-26
David R.I.P.
kudos:20 | reply to hayc59
U Know what?? screw all this
must be so damn old!! she needs to buy a newer
one this is a circus coming to town!
than you all for your wisdom, I learned valuable
info in all this!! |
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art22ggPremium
join:2005-02-16
Courtenay, BC
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G,
NOW went to put CD into laptop and guess what?
no cd compartment!! { LOL}
Now that is funny..  ...But not ha,ha  |
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hayc59Im Your HuckleberryPremium
join:2001-02-26
David R.I.P.
kudos:20 Reviews:
·Comcast
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 Wily_OnePremium
join:2002-11-24
San Jose, CA | The laptop didn't come with an external CD/DVD? Maybe it's still sitting in a box somewhere. |
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| said by Wily_One:The laptop didn't come with an external CD/DVD? Maybe it's still sitting in a box somewhere.
Common if it's a low profile unit. Mine doesn't have a ROM drive either. That's what I gave up in order to have an i7 in a low profile unit cause I lug it in the field with me half the day.
Next step would be to create a bootable USB flash drive or purchase a USB external ROM drive.
I'm sure someone can point you to directions for making a bootable USB flash drive... I haven't done it in years so can't be of much help there. |
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Wily_OnePremium
join:2002-11-24
San Jose, CA | Right the ultralight form factor doesn't have room for an internal drive, but they usually come with an optional plug-in drive, either as a separate unit or part of the port extender.
But yeah the next option is to boot from USB. For that I'd go with the option I suggested, the Offline Password Editor (#2 on that site's list) which is small. (usb110511.zip is 4.08 MB)
Direct link is working today.
Details:
»pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
Download:
»pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/usb110511.zip
P.S. I have personally used Nordahl's program on Windows NT (even on a Domain Controller), 2000, and Vista. All worked easily. Once you boot up with it just follow the prompts. |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to craig70130
said by craig70130:said by Wily_One:The laptop didn't come with an external CD/DVD? Maybe it's still sitting in a box somewhere.
Common if it's a low profile unit. Mine doesn't have a ROM drive either. That's what I gave up in order to have an i7 in a low profile unit cause I lug it in the field with me half the day. Next step would be to create a bootable USB flash drive or purchase a USB external ROM drive. I'm sure someone can point you to directions for making a bootable USB flash drive... I haven't done it in years so can't be of much help there. And hope boot from USB is an option and the systems BIOS isn't so locked down it can't be accessed. |
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I second this app:
»pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
I have used this for several disaster recovery situations so I know it works 100% of the time.
When prompted just blank the password (don't try and change it within the application) and you will be prompted to change it once you log in.
The ONLY caveat to this is if for some reason they were using NTFS encryption (highly doubtful on a personal computer) they will not have access to the files that were encrypted. |
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to craig70130
said by craig70130:A full repair will reset the password, however, you'll need to redownload service packs, updates, enter product key, possibly re-activate Windows, hope she has a copy of her XP install media, etc.
Where did I say do a full repair? I didn't. There is a hole that can be exploited to fix the password problem. No full repair needed. She would need the XP installation disk.
I believe I am right and was not insulting anyone. People who know nothing about computers, and refuse to learn, should not have one. MY mother doesn't have a computer as she realized that she would have to learn a great deal and did not want to do that at her age (she noticed her best friend -15 years younger-and other younger friends who had computers were spending a lot of time and money getting them fixed frequently). She understood that a computer is not a toaster. (Someday it will be, but probably not in my lifetime and it certainly isn't today and, for me, I wouldn't want a computer if it was a toaster as it would be very boring). She did have email for awhile but all the silly jokes and crap friends were sending bored her. She couldn't understand why anyone would find that interesting (I couldn't either and I am much younger).
There are plenty of Senior centers, and other places, that teach seniors about computers. How do you think I learned (back in 1998)? I went to free lessons for those 55+ (offered by the County of Hawaii) before I got my first computer. I went several times a week for a year. I also bought computer magazines, and checked out library books about computers, and bought a very fat book on Windows 98 and read the entire book more than once (although I didn't understand a lot of it but I kept trying and slowly learned). I still didn't know hardly anything about antivirus though and had an awful time trying to understand McAfee 4.2 that came on my first computer - a Dell that I configured online and bought (by phone since I couldn't use a credit card on a public computer) in 1999. I had no idea what "heuristic" meant and reading about it was like reading a foreign language. Then I stumbled on GRC.com and my life changed
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