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Password trouble please help !

  • 19-09-2006 4:35pm
    #1
    LastIrishMonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 630 ✭✭✭


    a friend came in drunk and changed his password to his windows xp home edtion and cant remember it at all he's been trying for weeks to remember anyideas how i could reteive it ? its a laptop acer travelmate 2304wlmi please help me all his pics of his family will be lost otherwise :D

    btw its the splash screen password before u access ur desktop !


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  • #2
    Soundman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Soundman


    Do you know who the maker of the BIOS is? It should say it somewhere on the screen when it is asking for the password to be entered.


  • #3
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    "splash screen password before u access ur desktop" ... is this before or after the "Windows is starting" message?
    If it's after: http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/


  • #4
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Get a linux password cracker, free download, think it's called John316 or something like that, boot from cd and follow instructions, i've used it a few times in work and it works a treat.

    21/25



  • #5
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    uch wrote:
    Get a linux password cracker, free download, think it's called John316 or something like that, boot from cd and follow instructions, i've used it a few times in work and it works a treat.
    John The Ripper is what you're looking for i think.

    This might be worth a look if you're somewhat tech minded: http://www.s-t-d.org/


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