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Question

for got password

Submitted: 16 days and 14 hours ago.
Category: Computer
Value: $14
Status: CLOSED
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Computer OS: Windows Vista

Already Tried:
try reset didn't work

Posted by Ryan B. 16 days and 14 hours ago.

Info Request

Hello and welcome to JustAnswer~Smile

My name is Ryan and I would like to assist you with your question today. Could you please tell me what password you forgot?

16 days and 14 hours ago.

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at the log on it askes a password

Posted by Ryan B. 16 days and 14 hours ago.

Info Request

What logon?

Are you referring to the windows login page to access your computer?

OR

Are you referring to an email password?

16 days and 14 hours ago.

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no at the log on too start vista

Posted by Ryan B. 16 days and 14 hours ago.

Answer

Thank you for the quick reply.

Try to login to the default administrative account through safe-mode:
1) Start your problem vista computer and "as soon" as it begins to turn on start tapping the F8 key on your keyboard till you are prompt with an advanced option menu that has options like safe-mode and safe-mode with networking. Then scroll to safe-mode with the arrow keys on your keyboard and push enter then your drivers will load and it will bring you to a login page. You should see an account there that says Administrator. Please click on that and if it asks for a password don't type anything just click ok/login and once logged into the admin account then click the globe at the bottom left to bring up the start menu then click on control panel, then on the left side click on classic view if you aren't already in classic view, then on the right side click on "user accounts" then click on your account and then click on change password make the password what you want it to be save it and then restart your computer and see if you cacn login.

16 days and 14 hours ago.

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did't work

Accepted Answer

Alright thank you for the quick reply.

Since you can't remember the password, the best thing for you to do would be to use a 3rd party password recovery tool. A free one that is pretty good is ophrack.

Please click the link below and download ophcrack and then burn it to a cd and boot your computer from it and it should recovery your password for you.

You can download ophcrack from the link below and I have also posted a video for you to watch:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ophcrack/files/ophcrack-livecd/2.3.1/ophcrack-vista-livecd-2.3.1.iso/download




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Expert: Ryan B.
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Answered: 11/5/2009

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