User account password mikeee 7/8/2007 6:50:01 PM Hi My daughter, whilst bored decided to password her screen. Trouble is the password is so long she can't fit it all in the password box. It keeps asking "have you forgotten your password" Can someone please help, as she's killing my pc Many thanks Mike

Re: User account password Malke <notreally[ at ]invalid.invalid> 7/8/2007 7:35:10 PM mikeee wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi > My daughter, whilst bored decided to password her screen. Trouble is the > password is so long she can't fit it all in the password box. It keeps asking > "have you forgotten your password" > > Can someone please help, as she's killing my pc I assume that "password her screen" means that your daughter has created a password for her user account that she no longer remembers. If you have another user account with administrative privileges you can log into that account and remove your daughter's password from the User Accounts applet in Control Panel. If you don't have another account like this set up or don't have the password to it, you'll need to log into the built-in Administrator account. In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden Administrator account. The default password is a blank. In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen, do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows. If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the built-in Administrator account's password to a blank. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and make the desired changes. Then you need to speak to your daughter about not doing this again. There are ways for you to secure your computer against her doing this, but all technical solutions to this sort of issue are flawed and technical solutions do not really work for interpersonal/familial problems. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Re: User account password mikeee 7/10/2007 8:50:02 PM nice one mate It's done! Ta very much Mike "Malke" wrote: [Quoted Text] > mikeee wrote: > > Hi > > My daughter, whilst bored decided to password her screen. Trouble is the > > password is so long she can't fit it all in the password box. It keeps asking > > "have you forgotten your password" > > > > Can someone please help, as she's killing my pc > > I assume that "password her screen" means that your daughter has created > a password for her user account that she no longer remembers. If you > have another user account with administrative privileges you can log > into that account and remove your daughter's password from the User > Accounts applet in Control Panel. If you don't have another account like > this set up or don't have the password to it, you'll need to log into > the built-in Administrator account. In XP Home, boot the computer into > Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly tapping the F8 key as the computer is > starting up. This will get you to the right menu. Navigate using your Up > arrow key; the mouse will not work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see > the normally hidden Administrator account. The default password is a blank. > > In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen, > do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in > "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows. > > If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or > have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the > built-in Administrator account's password to a blank. > > http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ > > Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and make the > desired changes. Then you need to speak to your daughter about not doing > this again. There are ways for you to secure your computer against her > doing this, but all technical solutions to this sort of issue are flawed > and technical solutions do not really work for interpersonal/familial > problems. > > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >

Re: User account password Malke <notreally[ at ]invalid.invalid> 7/10/2007 8:55:16 PM mikeee wrote: [Quoted Text] > nice one mate > It's done! > > Ta very much You're very welcome. I'm glad this sorted it for you. Thanks for taking the time to let me know. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User