Recovering/resetting password

A while back a friend brought her daughters laptop over (Vista home).
It was screwed. I had to recover it from the recovery partition.

I set up the daughters (user) account and her Mother's admin account.
They were due to pick up the laptop the next day so I didn't write down
either password as I knew I would remember.

Well for one reason or another it took them 2 weeks to pick it up and (yep
you guessed it) I have forgotten the admin password.
Her daughter is able to use it no problem but because this is a limited user
account she is unable to set stuff up. Her Mother is unable to help as she
has no password to use the admin account.

I'm very much hoping the only solution is not having to reinstall Windows
again?

Hi,

Boot into Safe mode where you can log into the default admin account. Reset
Mom's password from there.

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"Jay" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>A while back a friend brought her daughters laptop over (Vista home).
> It was screwed. I had to recover it from the recovery partition.
>
> I set up the daughters (user) account and her Mother's admin account.
> They were due to pick up the laptop the next day so I didn't write down
> either password as I knew I would remember.
>
> Well for one reason or another it took them 2 weeks to pick it up and (yep
> you guessed it) I have forgotten the admin password.
> Her daughter is able to use it no problem but because this is a limited
> user account she is unable to set stuff up. Her Mother is unable to help
> as she has no password to use the admin account.
>
> I'm very much hoping the only solution is not having to reinstall Windows
> again?

"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> Boot into Safe mode where you can log into the default admin account.
> Reset Mom's password from there.


Thanks, does the default admin account have a default password? I never
touched that account when I set it up.
Just created 2 accounts, 1 limited user and 1 admin. Neither are the
"administrator" account.


> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Jay" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>A while back a friend brought her daughters laptop over (Vista home).
>> It was screwed. I had to recover it from the recovery partition.
>>
>> I set up the daughters (user) account and her Mother's admin account.
>> They were due to pick up the laptop the next day so I didn't write down
>> either password as I knew I would remember.
>>
>> Well for one reason or another it took them 2 weeks to pick it up and
>> (yep you guessed it) I have forgotten the admin password.
>> Her daughter is able to use it no problem but because this is a limited
>> user account she is unable to set stuff up. Her Mother is unable to help
>> as she has no password to use the admin account.
>>
>> I'm very much hoping the only solution is not having to reinstall Windows
>> again?
>

Hello Jay,

METHOD THREE in the tutorial below can help show you how to reset the
password.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...-password.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Jay;1013658 Wrote:
> A while back a friend brought her daughters laptop over (Vista home).
> It was screwed. I had to recover it from the recovery partition.
>
> I set up the daughters (user) account and her Mother's admin account.
> They were due to pick up the laptop the next day so I didn't write down
> either password as I knew I would remember.
>
> Well for one reason or another it took them 2 weeks to pick it up and
> (yep
> you guessed it) I have forgotten the admin password.
> Her daughter is able to use it no problem but because this is a limited
> user
> account she is unable to set stuff up. Her Mother is unable to help as
> she
> has no password to use the admin account.
>
> I'm very much hoping the only solution is not having to reinstall
> Windows
> again?


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