Author Topic: Windows password remover? (Read 1120 times)

Sicarius · May 21, 2012, 01:38:13 PM

I found a laptop like... 4 years ago that someone was throwing out. I brought it home and put all the keys back in and it seemed to work fine but I couldn't turn it on cause it needed charged. My uncle got a charger and charged it finally but he says it has a password. Since I found it I don't have any clue what the password could be. My grandpa has a friend who knows how to remove the password but its taking forever for them to get together and figure it out. Does anyone know a way I can remove the password myself? I don't know the OS since its been sitting at my uncles for 4 years. So if anyone knows ways to remove a password from any windows OS that would help. I would guess it would be XP or vista.

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Demian · May 21, 2012, 01:39:37 PM

Shouldn't you be able to reformat a hard drive without using the computer itself? Plug the drive into another computer?

Isaac Fox · May 21, 2012, 01:40:50 PM

Quote from: Demian on May 21, 2012, 01:39:37 PM

Shouldn't you be able to reformat a hard drive without using the computer itself? Plug the drive into another computer?

Don't the computers need to be the same model to do that?

Port · May 21, 2012, 01:41:16 PM

Is it a BIOS password? If it isn't, you could just re-install the OS (or install something completely else) without dismounting the hard drive at all.

Quote from: Isaac Fox on May 21, 2012, 01:40:50 PM

Don't the computers need to be the same model to do that?

No?

aludane · May 21, 2012, 01:42:27 PM

press F8 on computer boot and go into safemode and create an administrator account.

Regulith · May 21, 2012, 01:43:39 PM

If it's XP you can go into Safe Mode (~~easiest way is boot up the computer and then do a hard shut down by holding the power button~~ read aludane's post) and log in with the Administrator account, then you can change the password for the main account or create a new temporary one

I've never had to bypass security in Vista though so you'll just have to ask Google for that one

Alternatively, if you have an OS installation disk, just pop it in and reinstall/reformat

Quote from: aludane on May 21, 2012, 01:42:27 PM

press F8 on computer boot and go into safemode and create an administrator account.

TIL

Port · May 21, 2012, 01:44:30 PM

alternatively if it's a input prompt tell him to try using "Administrator" as username and "" as password, works on quite many Windows systems

Tammy · May 21, 2012, 01:46:34 PM

Next time don't use permanent marker. It's really hard to get it off windows.

Port · May 21, 2012, 01:47:23 PM

Quote from: Tammy on May 21, 2012, 01:46:34 PM

Next time don't use permanent marker. It's really hard to get it off windows.

very funny

ha

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zackin5 · May 21, 2012, 01:49:32 PM

There is a bunch of windows password "recovery" software that lets you reset user passwords to something you know.

I had to help my dad reset one of his friend's user passwords because they forgot what it. It's was pretty easy, All you had to do was plop the software onto a disk and boot from it, Select a few options, chose a password and it was done. Although that was awhile back so I forgot what I used.