Lost password

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Or Tsemah

Hi,
What is the best method for recovering lost user passwords without Pre
making a Password disk or Re-Installing vista ?
 
May I know the lost account's type,
Is it the build-in administrator account?
If the account is not the Vista's build-in administrator, you can reset its
password, by the build-in administrator account in Vista.
 
Or Tsemah said:
Hi,
What is the best method for recovering lost user passwords without Pre
making a Password disk or Re-Installing vista ?
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You can't actually "recover" any passwords, but you can log in using the
built-in Administrator account (provided you thought to enable it) and use
it to reset the passwords of any other user accounts.


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Bruce Chambers said:
You can't actually "recover" any passwords, but you can log in using
the built-in Administrator account (provided you thought to enable it) and
use it to reset the passwords of any other user accounts.
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Question 1:
What do you mean by 'using the
built-in Administrator account (provided you thought to enable it)'?
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I have Vista Home Basic on a Compaq desktop with Vista preinstalled.
I created just one account, and specified a password for it.
Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Manage accounts shows only two accounts:
1) Me, Administrator, Password Protected
2) Guest account is off.
On first bootup, I didn't see any option to enable any built-in
administrator account.

How do I find this built-in administrator account?


Question 2:
On searching Help & Support, it says I can create a password reset disk, on
CD or on a USB thumbdrive, but it doesn't say how much space it takes up or
whether the CD/thumbdrive can contain other stuff.

Is the 'password reset disk' just any media on which userkey.psw resides and
can be seen by the system at login?

-Paul Randall
 
Is the administrator account enabled in safe mode ?

Or.

youyang said:
May I know the lost account's type,
Is it the build-in administrator account?
If the account is not the Vista's build-in administrator, you can reset
its password, by the build-in administrator account in Vista.
Click to expand...
 
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