FORGOT WINDOWS VISTA ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD.

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I'm sorry if you've seen alot of these posts, but I'm sure I looked at all of them and can't find anything to work for me! :( I have forgot my administrator password and I can't remember it for the life of me. (usually I dont have this problem. it just so happened I made a new password when I had like 3 days of no sleep, and I completly forgot everything in those days) Dell XPS 410 Windows Vista Home Premium OEMact 1. I have no other administrator accounts. Only 2 Standard user accounts and 1 administrator. 2. I tried the 'Safe Mode' procedure. Hit f8, start in Safe Mode and go to users and whatever. But when I go to Safe Mode on this computer, it loads up and there are still 3 accounts at the windows login and I can't get into the administrator account cause there is still a password. And yes its safe mode cause when I login to my standard account it says safe mode. 3. I tried doing that 'clearing forgotten passwords' that it says in the manual. I'm hoping I did it wrong and someone will help me correct what I did. I took the computer lid off and took the jumper piece off (as it says to remove the memory), I started the computer again then it says to re-put it on after you get to the windows desktop. (When I started it up without the jumper on, it still went to the windows sign-in.. and there was still a password on the accounts.) I went ahead and put it back on and restarted the computer, but no justice. 4. I absolutly do not want to reinstall the whole computer because it takes a looong time to hook up the internet.(something i blame my sister for getting a dumb internet service) I just wish to do everything else before I reinstall windows vista. Thanks for your time!

helmecj01 · Answer

Hi

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/vistapwdisk.htm

From Chris

My computer
Dell Dimension 1100
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP 2
512 MB of Ram
Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 256MB
Intel Celeron CPU 2.53GHz
Linksys wireless-G WUSB54GS With SpeedBooster
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3

my security software
VCOM SystemSuite 7 Professional
Windows Defender

hfish_94 · Answer

use another pc? can you do something with another computer to login? =-= ..

hfish_94 · Answer

to make what cd..

mombodog · Answer

I guess you have to use another PC to get the job done. :smileysurprised:

hfish_94 · Answer

how does that link work out? i know how to make a password disk whatever. but it doesnt work if i dont know the administrator password in the 1st place. in order to make that disk, u need to be on that user account.. and know the password.

also i have that dumb thing up where its user controlled. i cant install, run programs cause i have to enter the password for the administrator first. :'((((((

Message Edited by hfish_94 on 05-29-2007 04:31 PM

mombodog · Answer

or this   http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

mombodog · Answer

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305  try this Message Edited by mombodog on 05-29-2007 04:48 PM

mombodog · Answer

To make the CD you need to reset the passwword.

hfish_94 · Answer

whoooo! I'm sooo excitied. after trying and trying. what worked was the

offline nt password

program. but it did take awhile.. a good 30something minutes to go through everything. cause there are alot of different options to pick and it all depends on your computer. anyway, it worked!

:)

thanks everyone for your help.
i really didnt want to use those programs that go into your system but well, what could ya do

mombodog · Answer

I Crown thee computer genius.  :smileyhappy:

GioAguilar · Answer

This is nice, but for MS is this a security problem...???   Just wondering...

mombodog · Answer

If it can be made, it can be broken. Yes it is a security hole for sure.

GioAguilar · Answer

And I'm pretty sure you like to 'break' some couple things... :smileywink:

maggiena · Answer

Hey, you can use Windows Password Recovery Basic to help you

Windows General

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