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| | Lost my logon password fingernprint logon still working Hi, I have been using vista home premium since jan 2008, unfortunately while playing around i changed my vista password for the only account on my HP laptop which i dont remember now. the fortunate thing is that i can still logon using the finger print reader into the only account which is an administrative account.I would be happy if anyone could suggest me how to reset my password. i dont have a password restore disk. |
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| | Re: Lost my logon password fingernprint logon still working "M.Sathish Kumar" <M.Sathish Kumar@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:57BA193B-9A24-4140-9468-10EF240BDA41@xxxxxx Quote: > Hi, > I have been using vista home premium since jan 2008, unfortunately while > playing around i changed my vista password for the only account on my HP > laptop which i dont remember now. the fortunate thing is that i can still > logon using the finger print reader into the only account which is an > administrative account.I would be happy if anyone could suggest me how to > reset my password. i dont have a password restore disk. Reboot the laptop, tapping on the F=11 Key. Do full restore from the backup partition on your hard disk. The laptop will be restored to out of box, factory fresh settings. Of course, any specific settings and programme materials you have installed will be wiped out. Take the time to actually do a full backup before initialization of restore procedure. Then go in and set your administrator account user-name and password again, this time taking time to either simply writing down the information of making a backup usb file or backup disk of the information. Restore operations should take between 30 - 45 min. not including the manual backup and restore of your personal files and programmes. |
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| Home Premium 64 | Re: Lost my logon password fingernprint logon still working There is much easier way than doing a full restore as "Art" suggested. Log in to your primary account using your finger print. Create a NEW ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT (control panel>User accounts) Log out of your primary account (the one you used your finger print to log in to) Log in to the NEW ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT that you just made Get back to the User Accounts screen Select the account you want to remove the password for, and then click remove password. Next time you log on, you won't have a password. You can add one after logging on either in the User Accounts screen, or by ctrl+alt+delete and then clicking change password. Good luck |
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