Re: Windows Passwords

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Dear Mark,

I appreciate your taking the time to present a very credible approach to
this type of problem, which I currently don't immediately face but could bite
me at some unexpected time!

I scanned your link, and because of my general lack of knowledge of
registries and other internal components of Windows, I feel really challenged
if I were to have to
traverse a minefield of critical choices. For the expert computer guru, it
is probably a "piece of cake".

For my edification, what would be the reason why my suggested approach of
creating a 2nd Administrator for the purpose of choosing "me" as the basic
Administrator of my computer to just remove the password would not work in
allowing me then to log on? Would there possibly a problem that Windows would
still block me from entering? Currently, I have no password and never
created one.
Everything has worked fine, but I was anticipating having relatives come in
later this month. Maybe, the more practical solution is to unplug my
computer and disconnect the mouse, etc. while the visitors are there.

Sincerely,
--
bookie in Md.


"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

There are boot disks available to reset the default admin, or any other user
password to blank.

Offline NT pw & reg-editor, bootdisk password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

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"bookie" <bookie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have been on my new computer w/ Vista for about a year. On my old
computer, which crashed, I never set a Windows (98)password since its just
my
wife and I.

I was considering setting the password as Administrator but am concerned
about something going wrong w/ logging on even though it looked like the
password was correctly set. I have read selected portions of "Windows
Vista
for Dummies", and, from what was said, the best remedy is for me to create
a
dual user of myself as a 2nd Administrator. The rationale for this
approach
was suggested by the book was
that another administrator can remove the password from the "troubled"
user.
I am also familiar with creating the Password Reset Disk, but it seems
that
working with this disk may be more cumbersome.

Has anyone experienced any troubles with logging on after creating a
password?

Any thoughts?
--
bookie in Md.

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