Getting around a PC password

[bol-uk]

Not a dodgy one honest.

One of the systems I have has a pre-installed password that I do not have. Unfortunately, the windows system goes straight to the password request page not the desktop so I cannot remove the software and re-install it.

When I turn it on I get the black loading type page which gives option about pressing various F keys to do various things, does anyone know which I can press to enter set up and get around the password?

As always, awaits the sawdust instructions.

 

[orly]

Run a magnet over the harddrive mate, it "drags" the password off the system so you can get in.

Do it a couple of times to be certain

 

[bol-uk]

Run a magnet over the harddrive mate, it "drags" the password off the system so you can get in.

Do it a couple of times to be certain[/QUOTE

lol

 

[tmgc]

Not a dodgy one honest.

One of the systems I have has a pre-installed password that I do not have. Unfortunately, the windows system goes straight to the password request page not the desktop so I cannot remove the software and re-install it.

When I turn it on I get the black loading type page which gives option about pressing various F keys to do various things, does anyone know which I can press to enter set up and get around the password?

As always, awaits the sawdust instructions.

Sounds like your starter motor's broke.

 

[chrismpw]

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?

 

[lancs blue]

soak your pc in the bath then plug in and switch on. result

 

[Kurt.]

Ask my mrs for the password.... she knows feckin everything

 

[DualityNSNO]

Well you can try to go in safe mode, think that works around the passwords, and remove it from there.

Which Del/Insert/F-key you press to do that is pretty much individual to motherboards though, so just read really quickly when it pops up lol

 

[The binman chronicles]

Well you can try to go in safe mode, think that works around the passwords, and remove it from there.

Which Del/Insert/F-key you press to do that is pretty much individual to motherboards though, so just read really quickly when it pops up lol

If that doesn't work, I would take out the hard disk and install as a slave in another machine, copy all the data and then put back and format and reinstall windows again.

 

[Moomin]

Put it in a bowl of rice.

 

[Kurt.]

think it's F12

 

[nosejam]

Well you can try to go in safe mode, think that works around the passwords, and remove it from there.

Which Del/Insert/F-key you press to do that is pretty much individual to motherboards though, so just read really quickly when it pops up lol

I think that only works if you've never set up the Administrator account, safe mode enables it and gives it a blank password.

 

[Philw]

Not a dodgy one honest.

One of the systems I have has a pre-installed password that I do not have. Unfortunately, the windows system goes straight to the password request page not the desktop so I cannot remove the software and re-install it.

When I turn it on I get the black loading type page which gives option about pressing various F keys to do various things, does anyone know which I can press to enter set up and get around the password?

As always, awaits the sawdust instructions.

Do you mean the log on screen, or a password screen for software that's installed on top of windows? When you first boot up there are several keys which will get you into Bios (F2, F10, F12, Del), but that won't help with a Windows/other software password unless you set the pc to boot off another device/harddrive/partition. If it is the Windows logon then there is some software that I use at work which can unlock the default administrator password.

 

[bol-uk]

Do you mean the log on screen, or a password screen for software that's installed on top of windows? When you first boot up there are several keys which will get you into Bios (F2, F10, F12, Del), but that won't help with a Windows/other software password unless you set the pc to boot off another device/harddrive/partition. If it is the Windows logon then there is some software that I use at work which can unlock the default administrator password.

Oh right. Basically it goes from the bios screen, quickly flashes the desktop but goes straight to a cntrl alt del screen and requires password.

I just want to wipe the software and reinstall it but cannot even get to remove progs.

 

[Philw]

Oh right. Basically it goes from the bios screen, quickly flashes the desktop but goes straight to a cntrl alt del screen and requires password.

I just want to wipe the software and reinstall it but cannot even get to remove progs.

So it's not the normal Windows logon? Sounds like there's not much you can do without the pw. If there's nothing in particular on the machine you want to keep I would just reformat tbh.