Lost password

Hi,
What is the best method for recovering lost user passwords without Pre
making a Password disk or Re-Installing vista ?

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Or Tsemah
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May I know the lost account's type,
Is it the build-in administrator account?
If the account is not the Vista's build-in administrator, you can reset its
password, by the build-in administrator account in Vista.

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"Or Tsemah" <ort@yside.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> What is the best method for recovering lost user passwords without Pre
> making a Password disk or Re-Installing vista ?
>
> --
> Or Tsemah
> YSIDE

"Or Tsemah" <ort@yside.com> wrote in message
news:34C623B2-BB1D-474E-9465-D08597113F64@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> What is the best method for recovering lost user passwords without Pre
> making a Password disk or Re-Installing vista ?
>
> --
> Or Tsemah
> YSIDE



You can't actually "recover" any passwords, but you can log in using the
built-in Administrator account (provided you thought to enable it) and use
it to reset the passwords of any other user accounts.


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"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
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> "Or Tsemah" <ort@yside.com> wrote in message
> news:34C623B2-BB1D-474E-9465-D08597113F64@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>> What is the best method for recovering lost user passwords without Pre
>> making a Password disk or Re-Installing vista ?
>>
>> --
>> Or Tsemah
>> YSIDE
>
>
>
> You can't actually "recover" any passwords, but you can log in using
> the built-in Administrator account (provided you thought to enable it) and
> use it to reset the passwords of any other user accounts.

Question 1:
What do you mean by 'using the
> built-in Administrator account (provided you thought to enable it)'?
I have Vista Home Basic on a Compaq desktop with Vista preinstalled.
I created just one account, and specified a password for it.
Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Manage accounts shows only two accounts:
1) Me, Administrator, Password Protected
2) Guest account is off.
On first bootup, I didn't see any option to enable any built-in
administrator account.

How do I find this built-in administrator account?


Question 2:
On searching Help & Support, it says I can create a password reset disk, on
CD or on a USB thumbdrive, but it doesn't say how much space it takes up or
whether the CD/thumbdrive can contain other stuff.

Is the 'password reset disk' just any media on which userkey.psw resides and
can be seen by the system at login?

-Paul Randall

Is the administrator account enabled in safe mode ?

Or.

"youyang" <youyang1983@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FBA4141C-05D4-4C20-A8E9-5B40CDE12A2F@microsoft.com...
> May I know the lost account's type,
> Is it the build-in administrator account?
> If the account is not the Vista's build-in administrator, you can reset
> its password, by the build-in administrator account in Vista.
>
> --
> Thanks
> æ*‘
> 大家有时间�一下《雪花》
> "Or Tsemah" <ort@yside.com> wrote in message
> news:34C623B2-BB1D-474E-9465-D08597113F64@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>> What is the best method for recovering lost user passwords without Pre
>> making a Password disk or Re-Installing vista ?
>>
>> --
>> Or Tsemah
>> YSIDE
>

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