Windows Password

[Guest Lavert]

Using a Toshiba Laptop. Login in requires a password. Running Windows XP

Home Edition. After input of password screens returns incorrect password.

Need help as soon

as possible. Daughter's laptop needed for school. She is in Athens Ga

attending University of Georgia. Thanks in advance.

 

 

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Lavert Bryant

Powder Springs Ga 30127-6975

[Guest Malke]

Re: Windows Password

 

Lavert wrote:

> Using a Toshiba Laptop. Login in requires a password. Running Windows XP

> Home Edition. After input of password screens returns incorrect password.

> Need help as soon

> as possible. Daughter's laptop needed for school. She is in Athens Ga

> attending University of Georgia. Thanks in advance.

>

>

 

I assume you mean the Windows password and not a BIOS password.

 

If you have forgotten your password, if you have another user account with

administrative privileges you can log into that account and change your

original user account's password from the User Accounts applet in Control

Panel. If you don't have another account like this set up or don't have the

password to it, you'll need to log into the built-in Administrator account.

In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly tapping

the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to the right

menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not work here. Once

in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden Administrator account. The

default password is a blank.

 

If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or have

Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the built-in

Administrator account's password to a blank.

 

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

 

Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords that

you will remember and make other desired changes. WRITE THE PASSWORDS DOWN

AND PUT THEM SOMEWHERE YOU WON'T LOSE THEM.

 

Malke

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[Guest Alias]

Re: Windows Password

 

Lavert wrote:

> Using a Toshiba Laptop. Login in requires a password. Running Windows XP

> Home Edition. After input of password screens returns incorrect password.

> Need help as soon

> as possible. Daughter's laptop needed for school. She is in Athens Ga

> attending University of Georgia. Thanks in advance.

>

>

 

Are your CAPS on when you try? Are you sure you are inputing the right

password?

 

Alias