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Question

locked out of desktop windows vista emachine w3653

by Jun 21, 2015 4:42PM PDT

locked out of desktop windows vista emachine w3653 with no password or disk , And guest and administrator are disabled. ?? Help

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No big problem.
by Forum moderator Jun 21, 2015 4:52PM PDT

NTPASSWD is a bootable CD or USB stick found on the web for free and how to use can reset those account passwords in about 5 minutes. And it's free.

For those that need a lot of support I suggest www.lostpassword.com since they'll mail you the needed media and phone support this.

For me, NTPASSWD (or NTPASSWORD), five minutes and I'm done. Figure 10 minutes for the first time user.

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Bypass
by Jun 29, 2015 6:36PM PDT

You might need to use a spare PC to create a PCUnlocker Live CD (www.top-password.com). Once you've created it, put the CD in the optical drive of your Windows Vista machine and boot from it. The built-in password bypass tool will allow you to clear the admin password. I hope this will also work for you. Good luck!

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Today that looks to be 29.95
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 29, 2015 6:55PM PDT

NTPassword is still free.

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Worth a try
by Colin088 Jun 29, 2015 7:31PM PDT

I know there are also many free tools such as Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Ophcrack, Hirens' BootCD, etc. I prefer PCUnlocker as it's a feature-rich program for password bypass.

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(NT) For me, since I have NTPassword, I keep the 29.95.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 29, 2015 7:59PM PDT
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