lil_me Report post Posted September 14, 2006 Any ideas how to get past it ? My friend bought a second hand PC, seems the kids have activated a password on XP and can't get past the boot up screen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheNeil Report post Posted September 15, 2006 No way round it (that's the point of having it). You could either try guessing (as if) or, more sensibly, go for a re-install As a very long shot you could try using the administrator account and hope that the previous user left the admin password as blank (that's as in no password at all rather than 'blank'). If that lets you in then you need to reset/clear the password for the affected account or create a new user account and delete the old one. Like I said, a very long shot though Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lil_me Report post Posted September 16, 2006 We found out after bringing the tower here it was on Windows 2000. We've had to reinstall but have put XP on it instead. It wouldn't even let you type in the password box or do anything after it had booted up Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
microsoft_admin Report post Posted March 1, 2007 if its asking you for a password before windows starts loading then thats a bios password to cleaer you need to reset the bios. to do that make shure you ground youself first by wearing an anti static wrist band or wrapping a bit of bare wire round your wrist and conecting the other end of the wire to a cold water pipe then turn computer off disconect from mains and open the computer up locate the bios battary (round silvery object) and find the jumper switch near it (3 pins two of witch will be coverd with a black conecter block) note the current position of the jumper switch remove the conecter block (you can use tweezers or hand just pull straight up and try not to drop it they are hard to find if you drop them) and replace on the middile pin and the pin that was free before and leve for 5- 10 minites remove conecter block and replace in original position close computer up leve it for 5 min and start up the bios password will now be gone in order to set a password to prevent the kids doing it again press del on keyboard repetidaly as soon as comp starts to go in to bios then look for an option that says ask for boot password or require boot password you can set it up in there if you like on the first page when you go in to the bios you can set the system time as that will have been wiped with the bios reset as well the system time is bassicaly the same time as the current time if its a windows password while booting comp up repeatidly press f8 to eneter the boot options menu then select safe mode then wait for windows to load you will have acsess to admin account go to c: documents and settings/ then right click on the user name you whant to get into go to security and go to permishons make shure all permishons are alloowed then go to advanced change the owner name to the name of the account u whant to get in to and the child object name to that of the name of the account your in (Administrator) then dissalow all permishons to administrater windows will ask you to specify administrive rights restart the computer normaly and go to c: documents and settings then right click of the account you what to get in to then go to security and make shure all permishons are selected and click apply windows will again say no administrive rights specified click ok windows will ask you if you whant to select an administrater click yes and chose the account your trying to get in to then you will be able to enter a fresh password. restart the computer and go to safe mode then go to c:documents and settings right click on the Administrator folder and go to security go to advanced and set as owner then restart your computer normaly and your done Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites