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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Administration / October 2009Forgot Admin Password: Windows Vista Home Basic
I forgot this and now I am not able to do some things. Please help me get back my Admin Password. I would hate to go thru a re-installation of Vista. Thanks in advance and anticipation Seeking;702404 Wrote: > I forgot this and now I am not able to do some things. Please help me > get [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Thanks in advance and anticipation Hello Seeking, Is that the only admin account in your system ? It's important for me to know first.  Signaturet-4-2 Seeking;702404 Wrote: > I forgot this and now I am not able to do some things. Please help me > get [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Thanks in advance and anticipation Hi Seeking, This tutorial will show you how to reset the password to gain access again. If it is your only admin. account as t-4-2 posted, then you may need to do Method Three. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102005-reset-user-account-password.html Hope this helps, Shawn SignatureBrink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.* Dear t-4-2 and Brink I have only this one Admin password, that I have forgotten. I was not even aware that one could have more than 1 admin passwords!! In any case, I will try the link that Brink has suggested and see what I can do. But I did not understand what is meant by Method 3. I will get back to that later, though. Thanks for not asking me to re-load Vista. Best regards Seeking > Seeking;702404 Wrote: > > I forgot this and now I am not able to do some things. Please help me [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Hope this helps, > Shawn Seeking;703073 Wrote: > Dear t-4-2 and Brink > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > > '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) > > > *Please post feedback to help others.* No, NO, Seeking. Not 2 admin passwords, 2 admin accounts with 2 different passwords. Method Three is the only option in that tutorial you can use. The other ones are NOT applicable to you. If you run into road block, post the question. Brink will be there to lead you along. He is the guru. Signaturet-4-2 Hello t-4-2 Thanks for your correction. I had meant 2 Admin accounts. But I have only one admin account, for which I have forgotten the pswd. I will try this said 'Method Three' when I am back at home on my home computer. Thanks a lot for your kind attention Regards > Dear t-4-2 and Brink > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Hope this helps, > > Shawn Hello Brink I have gone thru the "Method Three". Before I attempt it, my questions: - does it work with Vista Home Basic (32 bit)? - do I need a blank or any boot disc sort of thing? It seems like that. Please confirm Seems more complicated than it had sounded. I do not have emails associated with the forgotten password, but I remember whenever I had to download something, I had to provide this password. After I reset the password, would I still be able to access those programs that I have downloaded and installed using the existing (but forgotten) password? Please help before I go completely crazy with this. Thanks Seeking;703378 Wrote: > Hello Brink > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Thanks Seeking, Yes, it will work on all Vista versions. It shows you how to create a boot DVD (or USB flash drive, etc...) to use on your computer to reset the password. If you have no access at all to your computer, then you will need to create the boot DVD on a friend's or another computer and use it on yours. If your email messages have not been encrypted, then they will be fine. It only applies to encrypted files since the encryption certificate is tied to the user account password. Hope this helps, Shawn SignatureBrink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.* I FORGOT MY ADMIN. PASSWORD WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT THIS??? > I forgot this and now I am not able to do some things. Please help me get > back my Admin Password. > > I would hate to go thru a re-installation of Vista. > > Thanks in advance and anticipation angels4u;751987 Wrote: > I FORGOT MY ADMIN. PASSWORD WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT THIS??? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > > > > > Thanks in advance and anticipation Hi Angels4u, This tutorial will show you how to reset the password to gain access again. If it is your only admin. account, then you may need to do Method Three. 'Reset User Account Password' (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102005-reset-user-account-password.html) Hope this helps, Shawn SignatureBrink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.* no way to get it but to reset it. I only find an article about it. 'Windows Password Recovery - Top 2 Premium Windows Password Recovery Tools - Password Cracker' (http://tinyurl.com/ldd4py) Signaturelinky1124@gmail.com linky1124@gmail.com <linky1124gmail.com.3wj5gg@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote: linky1124 is a spammer I have downloaded Windows Password Recovery Tool 2.0. It worked great! Signaturetommark http://forums.techarena.in [spam snipped] looks like the spammer "linky1124" has changed nyms. "linky1124" originating IP: 220.112.23.238 "tommark" originating IP: 220.112.23.238 Same thread, different vBulletin gateways. I've forgotten my password and tried the method 3 thing I keep reading about and once it goes through to the point that it get to the reset the password option...once I put 1 in it says the SAM hive isn't loaded...but it says it is??? I don't know what i'm doing wrong or what gives??? I really need in to my account to retrieve my papers for school. And on another note i tried the Windows Password Unlocker 4.0 and it loads and gives me the option to click on my username name which is the only admin account and it just says congratulations this version is fully compatible with windows yada yada but it doesn't give the the congratulations your password is reset. Signaturenickio04 nickio04;1153962 Wrote: > I've forgotten my password and tried the method 3 thing I keep reading > about and once it goes through to the point that it get to the reset the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > fully compatible with windows yada yada but it doesn't give the the > congratulations your password is reset. If you referring to the Offline NT registry editor program then read this :) 'Offline NT Password & Registry Editor' (http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/) SignatureCrucialHoax Yes I Am. I get to this point ======== chntpw Main Interactive Menu ======== Loaded hives: 1 - Edit user data and passwords 2 - Syskey status & change 3 - RecoveryConsole settings - - - 9 - Registry editor, now with full write support! q - Quit (you will be asked if there is something to save) What to do? [1] -> I Put 1 in and it comes up with the error message that SAM is not loaded or booted BUT in the loaded hives it says SAM??? Signaturenickio04 Did you hard shutdown? As in did you hold the power button till it shutdown? SignatureCrucialHoax Yes. I'm assuming I need to correctly shut down the computer and not just get aggitate and do the hard shutdown? Signaturenickio04 Correct. Run the computer and shut it down and power it up about 3 times. Shutting it down correctly should resolve this matter. Post back :) SignatureCrucialHoax Well I tried that and still got the same error. Signaturenickio04 Hmm... Are you sure your following the instructions correctly? SignatureCrucialHoax Yes i even printed them out to follow them and my friend double checked. my computer going to be an expensive lawn ornament soon!! Signaturenickio04 I don't see why its not letting you wipe it. You have shut down cleanly? Was it burnt correctly? I've -only- received that error when I hard shutdown. Never any other reason. If your following the instructions to the tee everything should fall into place. I'm sorry I haven't been much use, I haven't used that program in 4 months. SignatureCrucialHoax I think i'm going to try one of those password reset programs and see if they work? I Dont know what else to do at this point. So do they work or are they a waste of money? Signaturenickio04 nickio04;1154643 Wrote: > I think i'm going to try one of those password reset programs and see if > they work? I Dont know what else to do at this point. So do they work or > are they a waste of money? Whoa whoa, don't buy anything, more than likely its a scam. Please, do NOT buy anything. Try using Ophcrack. It will crack the password and give it to you so you can sign in then change it from there. Only thing is, if you had symbols in the password it wont crack it. http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/ SignatureCrucialHoax try this: *http://blogs.ibibo.com/reset-windows-password* Signaturesany http://forums.techarena.in All, Is there an easy way to re-set a forgotten password - I set an administrator account and password on my partner's daughter's PC and cannot remember the password (clearly I'm not flavour of the month!). I'm PC illiterate, so laymans terms appreciated. Thanks in advance. PS - I have tried accessing via "safe mode". However, it informs me that the account named "administrator" has been de-actuivated. SignatureJeffT http://forums.techarena.in >All, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >PS - I have tried accessing via "safe mode". However, it informs me >that the account named "administrator" has been de-actuivated. Enable the hidden administrator account, then use that to reset the password. Remember to disable that account when you are finished. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-acc ount-on-windows-vista/ Try your best to recall the password. If you can't, you have to empty the old password. As far as I know, there are two solutions for you. one is to reinstall your OS, another is to reset the password with a third part utility. （here, take "windows password unlocker" for example） I do not recommend the first solution. Once you reinstall the OS which must result a data loss. In the terms another method, you need a second computer that can link to Internet and blank CD. As following, 1. Login to a second computer that can link to Internet. download Windows Password Unlocker 4.0 and decompress it on that PC. Note that: there is a .ISO file,you need to burn the .ISO file to a CD. 2 Get out the newly created CD and insert it to the locked computer. Thirdly, re-booted the locked computer and then followed the process of instructions. 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