forgotten password

[mikal83]

Need some help.

Bought a new laptop cpla years ago and now need access to it for some files and I've forgotten the password.

Can anyone help. HP windows 7 home premium

[Derek Smith]

mikal83 said:

Need some help.

Bought a new laptop cpla years ago and now need access to it for some files and I've forgotten the password.

Can anyone help. HP windows 7 home premium

Remove the hard drive, connect it to another computer, and download the files from it.

[sunbeam alpine]

Or download Hirens Bootcd and remove the password.

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

[dundarach]

Hirens Boot USB

Download, boot from USB, change password, done

(bugger beat me to it whilst putting the kids to bed mid post)

Edited by dundarach on Tuesday 21st May 20:28

Edited by dundarach on Tuesday 21st May 20:28

[mikal83]

will try in the morning when I try and find an mt cd

[mikal83]

Didnt work at all as when the program started to run, my laptop asked for a password to change files.....have now taken it to a local puter guy.

Thanks for all your help

Mike

[TonyRPH]

I'm a bit late - but what you should have done...

Use the utility on Hirens CD to change the Administrator password.

Log in as Administrator and then reset the password for the user name you normally log in as.

And then login as that user.

[mikal83]

TonyRPH said:

I'm a bit late - but what you should have done...

Use the utility on Hirens CD to change the Administrator password.

Log in as Administrator and then reset the password for the user name you normally log in as.

And then login as that user.

Tried that BUT as b4, I downloaded it to a cd, plonked that into the fked laptop and when tried to boot it up, a box appeared asking for login as an admin!

[TonyRPH]

mikal83 said:

Tried that BUT as b4, I downloaded it to a cd, plonked that into the fked laptop and when tried to boot it up, a box appeared asking for login as an admin!

It should just boot directly from the CD, no password required - UNLESS - a BIOS password has been set, in which case, even a computer shop is unlikely to be able to bypass that.

For the record, instead of using the Hirens disk, I prefer the original (which I believe is what is on the Hirens disk) but this just boots straight into the password changer.

https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/