Sandgroper wrote:
> A friend of mine has been locked out of his Dell laptop and cannot find the
> password for the single account that it has.
>
> The laptop has Vista Ultimate installed on it and I am unable to activate
> the hidden administrator's account to get into Vista.
>
> Other investigations using other software shows only 2 accounts ,
> Administrator and Guest but not the actual user single account that shows
> up onto the login screen.
> ( I have managed to blank out the Administrator and Guest passwords )
>
> I have a standard Vista Recovery Disk , but I am unable to either repair or
> re-install Vista from the Dell hidden partition , and the only alternative
> is to install a unused retail version of Vista Home Premium that my friend
> has been given awhile ago.
>
> I have 2 questions
>
> 1) Is the Vista Ultimate user account passwords located in a different
> place as compared to other versions of Vista ?
>
> 2) if I install this retail version of Home Premium on the Dell laptop ,
> will I have problems with the propriety hardware that is on the Dell laptop
> and would I need to find all the Dell drivers for the laptop ?
>
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
You can just burn a copy of the Ultimate boot dvd (free) to download and
boot off of it. It has utilities like one that can reset a password for
an account.
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