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Old January 26th, 2008, 11:15 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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need help bypassing windows password

need to bypass the windows login password

bought computer from a guy..
when i turned the computer on it has a password.... how do i get passed the pass.
.... someone said something about f8 key

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Old January 27th, 2008, 12:29 AM     #2 (permalink)
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Try reading some of the threads already covering this Forgot my admin. Password HELP!! or simply ask the guy you bought the pc from
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Old January 27th, 2008, 01:34 AM     #3 (permalink)
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Re: need help bypassing windows password...

Windows or BIOS password...?

What Windows version in your PC...?


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Old January 27th, 2008, 01:42 AM     #4 (permalink)
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windows and is xp
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why not just do a clean install?? If ya bought it like that, who knows when the last time was that thing has seen a clean install.

I'd do a clean install.
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Old January 30th, 2008, 09:30 AM     #6 (permalink)
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I recently used EBCD (emergency boot CD):
http://ebcd.pcministry.com/

This utility cannot discover the password but was successful in resetting it.

I was unsuccessful using this utility:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd

It could not locate the XP partition.
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