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Disabling a forgotten password(Systems)
I'm considering resetting my Desk Top by removing the jumper plug labeled
PSWD from the jumper. I'm locked out of of Administrator System because I don't have the password.My question is....Will doing this have an effect on my files? And without incrimminating myself with my husband by telling him that I messed it up is there something else that I could tell him happend to our computer? Nana Bunny |
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Are you talking about the BIOS password jumper inside the PC? That will
have no effect on your files. Nor will it have any affect on XP passwords if that's the Administrator account you're referring to. Perhaps if you explained better, we could better advise. -- "Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message ... I'm considering resetting my Desk Top by removing the jumper plug labeled PSWD from the jumper. I'm locked out of of Administrator System because I don't have the password.My question is....Will doing this have an effect on my files? And without incrimminating myself with my husband by telling him that I messed it up is there something else that I could tell him happend to our computer? Nana Bunny |
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"Nana" wrote: I'm considering resetting my Desk Top by removing the jumper plug labeled PSWD from the jumper. I'm locked out of of Administrator System because I don't have the password.My question is....Will doing this have an effect on my files? And without incrimminating myself with my husband by telling him that I messed it up is there something else that I could tell him happend to our computer? Nana Bunny If you mean you can not get into Windows, then this will not work. A jumper on the motehrboard will have no impact on the windows password. |
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"Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message
... I'm considering resetting my Desk Top by removing the jumper plug labeled PSWD from the jumper. I'm locked out of of Administrator System because I don't have the password.My question is....Will doing this have an effect on my files? And without incrimminating myself with my husband by telling him that I messed it up is there something else that I could tell him happend to our computer? Nana Bunny Clearing the CMOS (to reset back to defaults which normally doesn't enable a BIOS-controlled password on power up) won't do a thing to clear or reset the passwords managed by the operating system. If your husband won't provide you with the admin password or will reset your password for your account then it is likely that it is not considered as shared property and you aren't supposed to be logging into his computer. |
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We had two user icons that came up when you started the computer to log
onto. One was called (his/hers) it was asigned a password by my husband who set up our computer. The other was called (Guest).No password was ever asigned to it I was plaqying around in (his/her) in Adminstrtor System and the next day when I started up the computer (his/hers) was gone and replased with a icon that said (Administrator).I cilcked onto it using our Password and it doesn't work. I have no problem with logging onto (Guest) but when I tery to get into Administrator system on (Guest). It tells me that "Access Denied) I don't have permission. My husband is out of town and I don't want to get into a argument with him by telling what I did.I 'm thinking that I ruied our business files. Is this true? if someone could help I'd really appreciate it. Nana Bunny "Vanguard" wrote: "Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message ... I'm considering resetting my Desk Top by removing the jumper plug labeled PSWD from the jumper. I'm locked out of of Administrator System because I don't have the password.My question is....Will doing this have an effect on my files? And without incrimminating myself with my husband by telling him that I messed it up is there something else that I could tell him happend to our computer? Nana Bunny Clearing the CMOS (to reset back to defaults which normally doesn't enable a BIOS-controlled password on power up) won't do a thing to clear or reset the passwords managed by the operating system. If your husband won't provide you with the admin password or will reset your password for your account then it is likely that it is not considered as shared property and you aren't supposed to be logging into his computer. |
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Sounds as if you've somehow deleted the "his/her" account - as normally the
Administrator account is hidden unless there are not other accounts (other than guest) on the system. As far as your business files, if they were stored under the account "his/her" in "my documents" and somehow you told the system to delete this account (or profile), it is very possible all these files are gone - it is also possible they still exist, but the account (or profile) is orphaned - only an experience PC technician can tell - but if they are deleted, then an experienced recovery company may be able to recover most of them - but the more you use it, the less likely they are recoverable, as the areas where the file(s) used to reside my get over written. Your best bet, take the PC to a dependable repair shop (not Best Buy or the likes) - research, find someone with a good reputation and let them remove the hard drive and insert it as a slave into a computer with software to perform recoveries such as these. Another note, it is just as much your husband's fault as yours, as any important data files should be backed up to CD, tape, external drive or even floppy on a regular basis - just in case something happens. I do this weekly on all the PC's in my household, 2 Workstations, a desktop and laptop. At most I loose a weeks worth of data. You and your husband need to seriously look into backup options. -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your Service! http://www.google.com Google is your "Friend" "Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message ... We had two user icons that came up when you started the computer to log onto. One was called (his/hers) it was asigned a password by my husband who set up our computer. The other was called (Guest).No password was ever asigned to it I was plaqying around in (his/her) in Adminstrtor System and the next day when I started up the computer (his/hers) was gone and replased with a icon that said (Administrator).I cilcked onto it using our Password and it doesn't work. I have no problem with logging onto (Guest) but when I tery to get into Administrator system on (Guest). It tells me that "Access Denied) I don't have permission. My husband is out of town and I don't want to get into a argument with him by telling what I did.I 'm thinking that I ruied our business files. Is this true? if someone could help I'd really appreciate it. Nana Bunny "Vanguard" wrote: "Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message ... I'm considering resetting my Desk Top by removing the jumper plug labeled PSWD from the jumper. I'm locked out of of Administrator System because I don't have the password.My question is....Will doing this have an effect on my files? And without incrimminating myself with my husband by telling him that I messed it up is there something else that I could tell him happend to our computer? Nana Bunny Clearing the CMOS (to reset back to defaults which normally doesn't enable a BIOS-controlled password on power up) won't do a thing to clear or reset the passwords managed by the operating system. If your husband won't provide you with the admin password or will reset your password for your account then it is likely that it is not considered as shared property and you aren't supposed to be logging into his computer. |
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"Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message
... We had two user icons that came up when you started the computer to log onto. One was called (his/hers) it was asigned a password by my husband who set up our computer. The other was called (Guest).No password was ever asigned to it I was plaqying around in (his/her) in Adminstrtor System and the next day when I started up the computer (his/hers) was gone and replased with a icon that said (Administrator).I cilcked onto it using our Password and it doesn't work. I have no problem with logging onto (Guest) but when I tery to get into Administrator system on (Guest). It tells me that "Access Denied) I don't have permission. My husband is out of town and I don't want to get into a argument with him by telling what I did.I 'm thinking that I ruied our business files. Is this true? if someone could help I'd really appreciate it. Nana Bunny "Vanguard" wrote: "Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message ... I'm considering resetting my Desk Top by removing the jumper plug labeled PSWD from the jumper. I'm locked out of of Administrator System because I don't have the password.My question is....Will doing this have an effect on my files? And without incrimminating myself with my husband by telling him that I messed it up is there something else that I could tell him happend to our computer? Nana Bunny Clearing the CMOS (to reset back to defaults which normally doesn't enable a BIOS-controlled password on power up) won't do a thing to clear or reset the passwords managed by the operating system. If your husband won't provide you with the admin password or will reset your password for your account then it is likely that it is not considered as shared property and you aren't supposed to be logging into his computer. The Administrator account is displayed (in the Fisher-Price Welcome login screen) *if* no other admin-level accounts have been defined. Once you define another admin-level account (i.e., your "his/hers" account) then the Administrator account got hidden. The Administrator account should NEVER be used as normal login account because it is your backup account in case your normal account's profile gets corrupted or deleted. In fact, I define an Administrator_Backup account as yet another backup, and I have my own admin-level account that I use and I rarely use the Administrator account. Have you tried a blank password? During setup, the user may end up just skip entering a password and leave it blank. There are password crack programs that you can find in a Google search but I don't know if they might cause harm, especially for the freebie password crackers. As to whether any files have been lost, that depends on what you were doing when you were "playing around" on the *business* computer. Hopefully you or your hubby realizes that if the data is actually important that it gets backed up. If you don't backup your data then you have decided that your data is unimportant. Since you hubby is away, at least you won't have him in your face when you give him a call. Another course of action to leave the computer alone and hope the problem is easily recoverable when he returns. You could end up making the situation much worse and what might've been him chastizing you for your screwup might actually turn into a full blown rowe when he finds you screwed up the computer even worse when trying to fix it. The kids aren't supposed to play with matches, but if they do and they start a fire then I want them running to me to tell me about the fire rather than trying to put it out themselves. I don't want them burning down the house because they were afraid of being chastised for their screwup. Get a facial, your hair done up, make his favorite dinner, and get a sexy nightie to reward him on his return and maybe it'll soften his temper regarding your screwup. Diversion might work. -- __________________________________________________ __________ ** Post your replies to the newsgroup - Share with others ** For e-mail Reply: remove "DELETE", add "~VN56~" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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Thank you for answering my question.
m Thank you for answering my question.So I will do as advised,Oh by the way vanguard I looked at some of your old post and you have the personality that is perfect for SFRedbook.com message board.. Nana Bunny m -- Nana Bunny "Vanguard" wrote: "Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message ... We had two user icons that came up when you started the computer to log onto. One was called (his/hers) it was asigned a password by my husband who set up our computer. The other was called (Guest).No password was ever asigned to it I was plaqying around in (his/her) in Adminstrtor System and the next day when I started up the computer (his/hers) was gone and replased with a icon that said (Administrator).I cilcked onto it using our Password and it doesn't work. I have no problem with logging onto (Guest) but when I tery to get into Administrator system on (Guest). It tells me that "Access Denied) I don't have permission. My husband is out of town and I don't want to get into a argument with him by telling what I did.I 'm thinking that I ruied our business files. Is this true? if someone could help I'd really appreciate it. Nana Bunny "Vanguard" wrote: "Nana" (donotspam) wrote in message ... I'm considering resetting my Desk Top by removing the jumper plug labeled PSWD from the jumper. I'm locked out of of Administrator System because I don't have the password.My question is....Will doing this have an effect on my files? And without incrimminating myself with my husband by telling him that I messed it up is there something else that I could tell him happend to our computer? Nana Bunny Clearing the CMOS (to reset back to defaults which normally doesn't enable a BIOS-controlled password on power up) won't do a thing to clear or reset the passwords managed by the operating system. If your husband won't provide you with the admin password or will reset your password for your account then it is likely that it is not considered as shared property and you aren't supposed to be logging into his computer. The Administrator account is displayed (in the Fisher-Price Welcome login screen) *if* no other admin-level accounts have been defined. Once you define another admin-level account (i.e., your "his/hers" account) then the Administrator account got hidden. The Administrator account should NEVER be used as normal login account because it is your backup account in case your normal account's profile gets corrupted or deleted. In fact, I define an Administrator_Backup account as yet another backup, and I have my own admin-level account that I use and I rarely use the Administrator account. Have you tried a blank password? During setup, the user may end up just skip entering a password and leave it blank. There are password crack programs that you can find in a Google search but I don't know if they might cause harm, especially for the freebie password crackers. As to whether any files have been lost, that depends on what you were doing when you were "playing around" on the *business* computer. Hopefully you or your hubby realizes that if the data is actually important that it gets backed up. If you don't backup your data then you have decided that your data is unimportant. Since you hubby is away, at least you won't have him in your face when you give him a call. Another course of action to leave the computer alone and hope the problem is easily recoverable when he returns. You could end up making the situation much worse and what might've been him chastizing you for your screwup might actually turn into a full blown rowe when he finds you screwed up the computer even worse when trying to fix it. The kids aren't supposed to play with matches, but if they do and they start a fire then I want them running to me to tell me about the fire rather than trying to put it out themselves. I don't want them burning down the house because they were afraid of being chastised for their screwup. Get a facial, your hair done up, make his favorite dinner, and get a sexy nightie to reward him on his return and maybe it'll soften his temper regarding your screwup. Diversion might work. -- __________________________________________________ __________ ** Post your replies to the newsgroup - Share with others ** For e-mail Reply: remove "DELETE", add "~VN56~" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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