Re: Windows Logon Password
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 01/29/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:12:30 +0000
Rick wrote:
>My wife's Uncle a widower recently passed on. My wife and I have to help settle his estate. He bought a new
>computer before Christmas but I don't know the Windows Logon Password. I need to boot the system up and check
>to see if there are important documents and photos that should be saved before formating the hard drive and
>offering the system for sale. How can i get around the logon password?
Boot hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black, take Safe Mode. . That
should then at 'Welcome' include an icon for 'Administrator'; if not hit
CTL-ALT-DEL twice to get a logon dialog, enter the explicit name
Administrator
and assume that password is null (which it most probably is), so Enter
immediately. From that, Start - Run and run
control userpasswords2
and you can select any user account and Reset Password for more
convenient subsequent access
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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