My grandaughter(9yoa) forgot her win 7 pwd for her toshiba laptop. Is there a way to get in. The administrator account is locked too.
Basically if you have physical access to a computer cracking is cake. And to be fair, I include Unix and Linux. That's why SGI computers, in the 1990, at Lockheed, had hard drives on sleds. At night you pulled the drive and locked it in a safe. Anyway follow the link. http://mymcp.blogspot.com/2008/07/howto-reset-local-windows-passwords.html http://windows-server-training.com/windows-7-password-reset-recovery/
Yes, there is a way to get in. It might seem corny, but I won't post it on an open forum. Just so you know, I've seen the Unix solution screw up a system so bad the Operating System had to be reinstalled.
On desktops, back in the day, people would set passwords on school computers... There is a jumper that you could pull and it would reset all passwords. I have been rocking a mac for years... but maybe that jumper is something that has hung around?
I use a program called "active boot disk" or "spotmau" to wipe passwords. U won't get the password back since it does not recover, but if u have physical access to the pc u can wipe that pass as soon as the disk boots Outdoor Hub mobile, the outdoor information engine
I've used this one many times .... http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ ... and I've never had it cause any problems at all.
I use Ophcrack. It works really well, just make sure that you get the version for Win7. In the future, I would recommend creating an administrator account for yourself, that way you can log in and fix her profile when she forgets.
A coworker uses Ophcrack on the lost and found computers. It works "most" of the time. And I agree, create yourself an Admin account with a complex non-expiring password and non-lockout.
