Forgotten Admin password, Windows 7...

My kids have a laptop with windows7. As it came from an educational grant it was already set up with two users - Administrator (me) and Learners (them).

Stupidly, Ive forgotten my admin password so now can't change anything on that machine.

Can anyone offer some advice as to how I can get admin access or force a password change?

Thanks, KJ x

[Dave20046]

http://4sysops.com/archives/three-wa...dmin-password/
any help?

You'll most likey need to download & burn some software to do it in the end

If you don't get it sorted by the weekend KJ let me know and i'll pop over and hack it for ya

[pookie]

i used this rescue disk on a win 7 pc

http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.ph...g=en&locale=en

You will need another pc to download and burn the iso image to cd.

Then stick it into the win 7 pc and boot from cd.

There is a windows password reset option from the menu.
It does its thing and then reboot the pc and log in using the reset / blank password

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by pookie

i used this rescue disk on a win 7 pc

http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.ph...g=en&locale=en

You will need another pc to download and burn the iso image to cd.

Then stick it into the win 7 pc and boot from cd.

There is a windows password reset option from the menu.
It does its thing and then reboot the pc and log in using the reset / blank password

this works well, you may need a free program like power iso to burn the disk

When the computer starts up, just before the windows logo appears keep pressing the F8 button.

You should get a menu, select safe mode. Once in you should be able to login as "Administrator" with no password, assuming it hasn't been disabled. Once in you can change the other "Admin" password.