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Serious trouble

Jul 9, 2010 9:14AM PDT

Need help for neighbours son he has a laptop running vista and he was being smart be changing admin password and now cannot remember password , we have oem recovery disc and valid key , any idea?s guys, i?m more used to xp not vista , please help

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Don't panic.
Jul 9, 2010 7:35PM PDT

Research NTPASSWD, create that boot CD and clear that password with NTPASSWD.

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serious trouble
Jul 10, 2010 8:38AM PDT

re,Research NTPASSWD, create that boot CD and clear that password with NTPASSWD


we only have access to unpriviliged user , everything else is locked

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It appears to me
Jul 10, 2010 4:54PM PDT

You didn't use NTPASSWD. It can clear the password for this or other accounts.

There are plenty of web pages about this FREE tool so I don't do much other than ask you use it.
Bob