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Old 12-10-2008, 03:39 PM
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Exclamation my knucklehead brother managed to lock himself out of his vista pc
i have xp at home/work and haven't used vista yet so i'm not much help. his start up screen has his login but nothing else. is there a default admin login he can use? how would he turn off logins since he's the only one who uses his computer?
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Try administrator with no password. Otherwise, http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...staxp20032knt/
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http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/0...ssword-editor/


It has been updated for Vista
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boot holding down F8
select safe mode with command prompt
type in
del C:/windows
hit enter

problem solved
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how about i delete your account phee
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^ I dont think you will
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how about i delete your account phee
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brother, huh? Last time it was a "friend."
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ok, i could change his name to pee!

btw, thanks whiskers and stogie!
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^ I dont think you will
Raise him and delete MWalsh9152's account too.
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actually it was my sister but i didn't want to deal with all of the picture requests
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^ I literally LOL'd! SO TRUE. hahahahaha
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Originally Posted by phee
boot holding down F8
select safe mode with command prompt
type in
del C:/windows
hit enter

problem solved

You sure do preach this technique, a lot. Have you been previously scorned by the C:\WINDOWS folder?
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i'm now taking offers to change walsh's name
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That is why on every machine I work on I make a second administrator user,

But the tool stogie posted is the other way, although there are better ones out there, that one does work.
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Maybe he just subconsciously wants a Mac!
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Originally Posted by Beelzebub
That is why on every machine I work on I make a second administrator user,

But the tool stogie posted is the other way, although there are better ones out there, that one does work.
give me some examples mark! keep in mind that my sis isn't the most skillful computer user...
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Search for Hiren's Boot CD.

You can download it from bittorrent, it has a very good one
Active Password Changer 3.0.420

and many other useful tools.Absolutly make the backup admin once you are done with the machine so you won't have to go through this again.
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ok, i could change his name to pee!

btw, thanks whiskers and stogie!
change it to phee phee and we have a deal....
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but its happened to me. i just took my HD and made it a slave. backed up all my info and reinstalled windows. its a roundabout way, but i lernt muh lessuhn
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Originally Posted by sho_nuff1997
You sure do preach this technique, a lot. Have you been previously scorned by the C:\WINDOWS folder?
nope. it just solves every problem in windows





























*made on a mac*
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