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Admin password
I am trying to boot from the CD since my laptop crashed, and it is asking for
an adminstrator password. Whenever I logged on to my laptop, I never entered a password, just hit enter. What is the password? |
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Enter the BIOS and set it to boot first from the optical drive.
--- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est "A Day in the Life of a Web 2.0 Hacker" - PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330952,00.asp NW wrote: I am trying to boot from the CD since my laptop crashed, and it is asking for an adminstrator password. Whenever I logged on to my laptop, I never entered a password, just hit enter. What is the password? |
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Admin password
NW wrote:
I am trying to boot from the CD since my laptop crashed, and it is asking for an adminstrator password. Whenever I logged on to my laptop, I never entered a password, just hit enter. What is the password? There would be no password required to simply boot from the CD, unless you've set a BIOS password. We'd have no way of knowing what that is; nor could anyone tell you how to bypass it without knowing the specific make and model of the laptop. In fact, some laptops have to be returned to the factory to have the BIOS password cleared/reset. However, if you've actually already booted from the CD and are subsequently trying to enter the Recovery Console, the password being requested is that of the built-in _Administrator_ account, not the password for any other administrative user accounts that the computer's owner may have created. Unless the owner deliberately set the Administrator's password via the Management Console (_not_ the Control Panel), it's probably still blank. WinXP Pro asks the installer to set the Administrator's password during OS installation, but WinXP Home doesn't. How to Log On to Windows XP If You Forget Your Password or Your Password Expires http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q321305 Failing that, Linux-based password cracking utilities abound on the Internet, freely available to anyone who can use Google. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot |
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