Vista - Forgot Admin Password: Windows Vista Home Basic

Yes i even printed them out to follow them and my friend double checked. my computer going to be an expensive lawn ornament soon!!

I don't see why its not letting you wipe it. You have shut down cleanly? Was it burnt correctly? I've only received that error when I hard shutdown. Never any other reason. If your following the instructions to the tee everything should fall into place. I'm sorry I haven't been much use, I haven't used that program in 4 months.

I think i'm going to try one of those password reset programs and see if they work? I Dont know what else to do at this point. So do they work or are they a waste of money?

Whoa whoa, don't buy anything, more than likely its a scam. Please, do NOT buy anything. Try using Ophcrack. It will crack the password and give it to you so you can sign in then change it from there. Only thing is, if you had symbols in the password it wont crack it.

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/