my knucklehead brother managed to lock himself out of his vista pc

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Dec 10, 2008 | 03:39 PM

Mike

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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?

Dec 10, 2008 | 03:54 PM

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Try administrator with no password. Otherwise, http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...staxp20032knt/

Dec 10, 2008 | 03:59 PM

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http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/0...ssword-editor/

It has been updated for Vista

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:04 PM

phee

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boot holding down F8
select safe mode with command prompt
type in
del C:/windows
hit enter

problem solved

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:06 PM

Mike

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how about i delete your account phee

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:10 PM

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^ I dont think you will

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:12 PM

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how about i delete your account phee

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Dec 10, 2008 | 04:12 PM

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brother, huh? Last time it was a "friend."

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:12 PM

Mike

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ok, i could change his name to pee!

btw, thanks whiskers and stogie!

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MWalsh9152

^ I dont think you will

Raise him and delete MWalsh9152's account too.

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:14 PM

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actually it was my sister but i didn't want to deal with all of the picture requests

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:14 PM

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^ I literally LOL'd! SO TRUE. hahahahaha

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:15 PM

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Quote:

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?

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:15 PM

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i'm now taking offers to change walsh's name

Dec 10, 2008 | 04:20 PM

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lil miss piggy?

Dec 10, 2008 | 05:19 PM

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Dec 10, 2008 | 05:28 PM

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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.

Dec 10, 2008 | 05:45 PM

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Maybe he just subconsciously wants a Mac!

Dec 10, 2008 | 07:31 PM

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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.

give me some examples mark! keep in mind that my sis isn't the most skillful computer user...

Dec 10, 2008 | 07:46 PM

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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.

Dec 10, 2008 | 08:06 PM

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Quote:

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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....

Dec 10, 2008 | 08:07 PM

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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