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02-18-2008
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| Guest | How do you use the Password Reset Disk? Running Vista Home Prem. I've created a password reset disk on a thumbdrive. Vista Help gives the following instructions on the use of the 'disk': "To use your password reset disk to reset your password: You will not be able to follow these steps if you have locked your computer. If you have typed the wrong password, you'll receive a message that says your user name or password is incorrect. When this message appears, click OK. Click Reset password, and then follow the instructions." I wanted to test this procedure, so I created a Standard acct for this purpose and verified that I could login into it. Then, following the procedure from Help, I purposely typed the wrong password; clicked OK on the msg. But....then what? There is no place on the account login screen to click reset password. Where is it? What have I missed? Thanks, JohnDavid |
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02-18-2008
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| Administrator | Re: How do you use the Password Reset Disk?  Quote: Originally Posted by JohnDavid  Running Vista Home Prem. I've created a password reset disk on a thumbdrive. Vista Help gives the following instructions on the use of the 'disk': "To use your password reset disk to reset your password: You will not be able to follow these steps if you have locked your computer. If you have typed the wrong password, you'll receive a message that says your user name or password is incorrect. When this message appears, click OK. Click Reset password, and then follow the instructions." I wanted to test this procedure, so I created a Standard acct for this purpose and verified that I could login into it. Then, following the procedure from Help, I purposely typed the wrong password; clicked OK on the msg. But....then what? There is no place on the account login screen to click reset password. Where is it? What have I missed? Thanks, JohnDavid Method Four in this tutorial will show you how to use the password reset disk if you should need it. Reset User Account Password Shawn |
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02-18-2008
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| Guest | Re: How do you use the Password Reset Disk? You haven't missed anything. You should see the password reset box below the password input box, after the failed password , and OK. If you don't see it, the system has some broken component. Some Windows Vista functions may not work, or Windows Vista may stop responding: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833 -- Was this helpful? Then click the "Yes" Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales....htm#RateAPost Mark L. Ferguson .. "JohnDavid" <JohnDavid@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:212F2FA9-BE0C-4B12-8176-70B81AC102EF@xxxxxx Quote: > Running Vista Home Prem. > I've created a password reset disk on a thumbdrive. > > Vista Help gives the following instructions on the use of the 'disk': > "To use your password reset disk to reset your password: > > You will not be able to follow these steps if you have locked your > computer. > > If you have typed the wrong password, you'll receive a message that says > your user name or password is incorrect. When this message appears, click > OK. > > Click Reset password, and then follow the instructions." > > I wanted to test this procedure, so I created a Standard acct for this > purpose and verified that I could login into it. Then, following the > procedure from Help, I purposely typed the wrong password; clicked OK on > the > msg. But....then what? There is no place on the account login screen to > click reset password. Where is it? What have I missed? > Thanks, > JohnDavid > |
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02-18-2008
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| Guest | Re: How do you use the Password Reset Disk? Thanks for your help, JohnDavid "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote: Quote: > You haven't missed anything. You should see the password reset box below the > password input box, after the failed password , and OK. If you don't see it, > the system has some broken component. > Some Windows Vista functions may not work, or Windows Vista may stop > responding: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833 > -- > Was this helpful? Then click the "Yes" Ratings button. Voting helps the web > interface. > http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales....htm#RateAPost > > Mark L. Ferguson > > . > "JohnDavid" <JohnDavid@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:212F2FA9-BE0C-4B12-8176-70B81AC102EF@xxxxxx Quote: > > Running Vista Home Prem. > > I've created a password reset disk on a thumbdrive. > > > > Vista Help gives the following instructions on the use of the 'disk': > > "To use your password reset disk to reset your password: > > > > You will not be able to follow these steps if you have locked your > > computer. > > > > If you have typed the wrong password, you'll receive a message that says > > your user name or password is incorrect. When this message appears, click > > OK. > > > > Click Reset password, and then follow the instructions." > > > > I wanted to test this procedure, so I created a Standard acct for this > > purpose and verified that I could login into it. Then, following the > > procedure from Help, I purposely typed the wrong password; clicked OK on > > the > > msg. But....then what? There is no place on the account login screen to > > click reset password. Where is it? What have I missed? > > Thanks, > > JohnDavid > > |
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