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Offline Lona

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« on: February 23, 2003, 02:10 »
My friend has just acquired a pc and cannot get into windows as it is asking for a password. Is there a way round this? ???
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2003, 02:34 »
Can you start it up in SAFE mode Lona then go to Control Panel and then to passwords and see if you can delete the requirement for it in there?
The only sure way I can think of is to boot it from the floppy and use FDISK to format the drive and reinstall an operating system.Do you know which OS is on it at the moment?
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« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2003, 02:39 »
To the best of my knowledge it was an ex works PC and has windows NT which I am not familiar with. I haven't actually seen the machine in question so don't know the spec but I thought I would ask for advice first before I go look at it. I was quite surprised when my friend said it had one large speaker. I would have thought it would have had 2.
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« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2003, 08:33 »
Greetings Lona  8)

Look at this BHS support centre/NT
Still worth a look to the techies in here tho  ;).

There are a few password recovery programs in there, hope you manage to crack it ok.

Whoops silly me, I forget about this one we use at work  ;)

try this one this one will be a better choice me thinks. :-*


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« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2003, 10:25 »
Nice links Hook, thanks very much 8) :D
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« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2003, 14:00 »
That was excellent, Hookstar. I have e-mailed that link to my friend and he can get on with it.
I will let you know if he ever manages to get into Windows. :)
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« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2003, 14:28 »
Hi again. Because my friend is a numpty when it comes to computers. I have downloaded a key to unlock passwords for Windows NT. If he puts in the boot disk will there be easy instructions for him to follow? ???
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« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2003, 16:35 »
I went down to my friends. Used the boot disk which allowed me to reach the WindowsNT logo screen but there is another Novell systems logo which is asking for the password. Now would I be right in thinking I need to find a Novell password key?
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« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2003, 16:49 »
On the Novell login screen you will find a tickbox marked "Login to Workstation only" or something similar.

Ticking this box should allow you to get to the NT desktop. If you are logged in as Administrator you should be able to remove the Novell Networking client either from Add/Remove programs or the Network icon in Control Panel (I can't remember which it is in NT  :-[)

Best of luck! Post back if you need further help :)
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« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2003, 17:00 »
We tried ticking the workstation box but it didn't let us in.
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« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2003, 17:04 »
As long as you have a correct password for the username you are trying to login with it should work.

It doesn't sound like the password you have is the correct one.


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« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2003, 17:09 »
Adept, this is an ex office pc that my friend was given. The whole problem is he doesn't have the password.
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« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2003, 17:18 »
Sorry, I thought the download that Hookstar mentioned allows you to reset a user's password to anything you want. You should run that software and set the Administrator password to something you will remember (or blank).

You will then be able to log in with the workstation tickbox ticked :)

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« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2003, 17:34 »
I put the disk in like I would a boot up disk but nothing happened. I'm probably doing something daft. I noticed the pc had windowsNT version 4 and the disk I downloaded was for version 5. Do you think that's why it didn't work. I went back in to hookster's site but could not find anything for version 4.
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« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2003, 17:38 »
Ah! :)

I think you may need to enable the PC to boot off a floppy of a CD (whichever it is you are using).

You'll need to go into the BIOS to do this. I hope it's not password protected :o
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