Solved Locked out of vista

Hi all,

On my vista home premium instalation. a ex friend of mine set a password using comand prompt net user and didnt tell me what it is.

I am the only user on the computer
administrator account is disabled

Boot from your vista installation dvd and do a system restore

Hello 037291, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Yep, I would try a System Restore (METHOD FOUR below) first as Delphin posted. If that does not help, then you can use METHOD THREE below.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102005-reset-user-account-password.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Unfortuantly My Manufacturer did not give me a vista dvd. It is on a seperate Partition.

037291:

Ophcrack should work.

Ophcrack

Disc must be burned as image.

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

The only option is option 3 but my comuter wond boot of it propperly

037291:

Ophcrack does a scan to give you the password.

What happened when you tried to boot into the other one?

Brink said:

Hello 037291, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Yep, I would try a System Restore (METHOD FOUR below) first as Delphin posted. If that does not help, then you can use METHOD THREE below.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/102005-reset-user-account-password.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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037291 said:

Unfortuantly My Manufacturer did not give me a vista dvd. It is on a seperate Partition.

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I'm not sure what you mean. Using METHOD THREE, you create a boot disc to use instead to reset your password with. You do not need your Vista installation disc.

For some reason the disk did not burn and boot properly my disk drive is first to attempt to boot.
What would be the size of the file when burnt onto a disk?

037291:

I don't know the size offhand.
It is important that these boot discs be burned as image, and not merely copied onto the disc.

037291,

Did you use a program like ImgBurn to burn (extract) the ISO file to the DVD and not just copy the ISO as Ardneh described above?

Fixed. i was using 7 zip to open the iso then burning that to the disk

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted 037291.