Forgot User Password...

Hey everyone,

This is an extremely common and newbie question, but yeah I'm extremely newbie and extremely common .

I forgot the password to my user login account. There's only one account, and its also the sole Administrator.

What do I do now? Do I go into Safe Mode or something? How DO you get into Safe Mode?

Amazingly newbie, but help!

Thanks in advance!

 

There are a lot of things you can do.

Press F8 at the loading screen to get into Safe Mode.

From there you can create another account all together.


1. Click Start, and then click Run.

2. type " control userpasswords2 "

Also look at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q321305

 

I think what irfysis is saying is that he/she uses the administrator account for a personal account (for the record, this is a very bad idea) and thus cannot login to windows at all, which is a much bigger problem. All the fixes I can think of at the moment require being able to log in to windows, but someone here surely knows of another fix/workaround.

 

Is there anyway to disable the SafeMode way?

 

i don't understand what you are asking?

 

Well I'm not sure if its exactly ok to explain something I know for sure would get the password back, yadalamean?

 

Anyway else to help me? Please? I need this laptop by Friday...

EDIT: I used RedSensiStar's way, and it worked! Thanks RedSensiStar and Dragonesse, although RedSensiStar's method fixed my problem, I still want to thank you for trying to help .