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| Answer» <html><body><p>I am trying to help get access to an old DELL computer the owner has passed away and the computer has not been used for over 2 years.<br/>the owner put on it a password to stop staff where he lived accessing his computer but he didn't tell anyone in his family what the password was, all possible or logical ones have now been tried'<br/>I thought that maybe going into the setup we could bypass it in the setup under security it has the following <br/><br/>System Security:<br/>Password status...unlocked<br/>system passwork...not enabled<br/>setup password....not enabled<br/>POST Hotkeys..F2 & F12<br/>Chassis Intrusion ..Detected<br/>PXE BIS Default Policy...Deny<br/><br/>Is any one able to tell me if anything in this will help us get into the computer <br/>No setup disks were found, just before he died it seems he had a big clean up and threw lots of disks out and all his 3"floppys as well.<br/>Any suggestions gratefully received. <br/>so you have to type a password before you are able to boot the PC normally? Or is this a password to get into windows? And what windows is this?? <br/><br/>I am assuming the OS is some kind of windows OS.it is running Windows XP <br/>loads the windows things then says and you have to hit alt control delete first then a password box opens up and that is the problem So you <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/see-630247" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SEE">SEE</a> something like what the following screenshots show?<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>in that case,<br/><br/>try this:<br/>Quote</p><blockquote>There is a hidden administrator account. You can log on it and you can change or <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/remove-1184766" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REMOVE">REMOVE</a> all the other <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/passes-1148517" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PASSES">PASSES</a> of your comp without knowing the previous passes. Just type ctrl alt del twice and then type Administrator on the account name and you can enter. If that won't work, restart the computer and toggle the F5 button.You will get screen that will ask you if you want to boot with command prompt, choose it and then type net user, then press enter <br/>Then again type "Net user [Username of the Account]*" then press Enter, without the ["], and quotes. Make sure you spell the username correctly, and you have the '*'. <br/>To change password press enter and after that follow the instructions that <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/come-409636" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COME">COME</a> after to reset your password. </blockquote>.<br/><br/><br/>If that doesn't work, you can try through these links and hopefully one of them gets your pc unlocked.<br/><br/>1. <a href="http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305">http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305</a><br/>2. <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/change-your-forgotten-windows-password-with-the-linux-system-rescue-cd/">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/change-your-forgotten-windows-password-with-the-linux-system-rescue-cd/</a><br/><br/>hope this helps... good <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/luck-1081575" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LUCK">LUCK</a>! <br/>thank you<br/>they are exactly what we see will now try your suggestions <br/>thank you<br/>Thank you 2x3i5x<br/>It took a lot of tries but we have done it we used the command prompt one,and then came the fun part the files the family were looking for were there but it contained not a lot of the Book that their granddad was writing, just a few pages in fact it seems that his book was more in his imagination than on the computer, but now one of his great grandkids will get a workable computer, even if the programs are a bit out of date.<br/>Thank you for your helpgreat ,,, glad you got it working....</body></html> | |