MY LAPTOP WILL NOT TAKE MINE OR MY PARTNERS PASSWORDS. hOW CAN I FIX THIS PROBLEM. i CANNOT GET INTO MY LAPTOP

john featherstonehaugh, May 2009

Note: If you forget the password to a secondary administrator account, you can reset it by logging in to the built-in "Administrator" account easily. This article assumes the following:

1. You have only one working administrator account in the system for which you’ve lost the password.
2. You don’t have a Password Reset Disk
3. You don’t have a Windows XP CD (which will be the case if you have a PC from OEM), or lost your retail Windows XP CD.


Warning: In Windows XP, the changing of a local user password by an administrator, or through a method other than by the user, will block all access to previously encrypted files (using EFS) by the user.

1. Insert the ERD Commander Boot CD into the drive and restart the system

2. Boot the computer using ERD Commander Boot CD. You may have to set the boot order in the BIOS first.

3. Select your Windows XP installation from the list

4. From the ERD Commander menu (Start menu), click System Tools and click Locksmith

5. Click Next

6. Select the administrator account from the list for which you want to reset the password.

7. Type the new password in both the boxes, click Next and click Finish

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/reset-lost-xp-administrator-password-erd-commander/

PRINCE, June 2009

I have no intention of revealing on an open forum how to bypass passwords and I hope that no on else will either. It would be a recipe for even more stolen laptops.

However there are several passwords that could be on the PC. If it is the Windows passord, take the PC with proof of ownership and ID to a local computer shop and they ought to be able to help you.

If, however it is a hardware based password, they are designed to turn stolen laptops into scrap and so you will be a bit stuck if that is the one that has been set.

T, May 2009