password @ start up

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Upon turning the computer on it tells me to enter my password. I enter and it wont let me log on with my correct password and it keeps asking me to type my password again for up to three tries then I have to cntl,alt, del to boot up again. what can I do..This computer was working last night and I accidently turned it off without closing one application. I hope you can help
 
Pepper;
something here should help:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

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pepper said:
Upon turning the computer on it tells me to enter my password. I
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enter and it wont let me log on with my correct password and it keeps
asking me to type my password again for up to three tries then I have
to cntl,alt, del to boot up again. what can I do..This computer was
working last night and I accidently turned it off without closing one
application. I hope you can help
 
Hi pepper,

Go to Start > Run > Type 'control userpasswords2' (without the
quotation marks) press enter
Click on the user account and choose reestablish password.

Alternatively, you can go to Control Panel > User accounts and change
the password from there.

Good luck.
 
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