Hello, alright, this is what I need to do. My cousin changed the administrative password on his comptuer for some reason, he said it prompted him to change it, may have expired or something, but he is a young kid, and of course, after a weekend of not using the computer, he forgot the password. So my uncle brings me the computer and asks me to figure it out and I said sure I'll do it no problem I know how. I thought I did atleast.
I tried the thing at:
www.loginrecovery.com and it ended up telling me that the password was too complicated, between 8 and 14 letters and that it may contain a symbol or something.
I tried to put in a Windows Reinstallation CD, and then do Repair, because supposedly that will allow you to change it, but once you hit repair, it says to enter the administrative password, so I gave up on that.
I also tried to take out the watch battery thing and switch the jumper because a website said that would reset all passwords, but that just changed and reset some password that the computer prompts you for before anything starts up.
I also looked at a few other sites but didn't know if they would work because everything is based around NT.
So, when I get to the Windows Startup Page, its not the classic view where you can just like hit Cancel and get access to stuff but not certain files or something, which I remember in an old version of Windows, and there is only one account and you need the password no matter what, and of course, there is no hint.
So I need the quickest, safest way to get the password or just delete it or change it, my uncle and my cousin tried like 50 different passwords that my cousin thought he might have changed it to and none worked, so I have absolutely no idea what it could be.
I have nothing against complicated commands, I have learned a lot about computers in the past and a lot of experience with them, thats why my uncle came to me first before a support guy, and I promised him I would do it, and he kind of wants it by the end of the weekend, but I don't care I'll stay up all night if I have to to keep up my reign of best computer geek in my family.
If it matters at all, I did try to put the hard drive in the computer I'm on now, but I couldn't get my computer to read it, like at all, I'm sure I connected it right, I built this computer, and I've done it with other hard drives. I figured if I just put it in and then explored it a little bit I would eventually be able to find the password or disable it or something.
If I can install Windows just over it again, I wouldn't mind if that would work, but I don't think I have a copy of Windows XP Professional lying around and I don't want to downgrade his computer, lol.
So if anyone could please help me that would be great.
Thanks.
Mark
