Vista - How to reset password in windows vista home premium for laptop

My system has got locked. we had not set pwd but unfortunately its locked.
Not sure if my son was medling with it. Now to reset its asking to insert
USB flash drive or removable disk. Its not working though that way. How do
I get it reset now.

Did you create a password reset disk before you got locked out?
Why not ask your son if he set a password and ask him for it?

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Asha Kiran" wrote:

My system has got locked. we had not set pwd but unfortunately its locked.
Not sure if my son was medling with it. Now to reset its asking to insert
USB flash drive or removable disk. Its not working though that way. How do
I get it reset now.

Also see: http://www.lostpassword.com/windows....utm_content=v1

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Asha Kiran" <Asha Kiran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:630483B4-6DA0-445B-83FA-BA47752D0DF9@microsoft.com...
My system has got locked. we had not set pwd but unfortunately its locked.
Not sure if my son was medling with it. Now to reset its asking to insert
USB flash drive or removable disk. Its not working though that way. How do
I get it reset now.

Do you have another Administrative account on that computer? If you do, you
can login to that account and go into User Management and reset the password
from there.

"Asha Kiran" <Asha Kiran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:630483B4-6DA0-445B-83FA-BA47752D0DF9@microsoft.com...
> My system has got locked. we had not set pwd but unfortunately its
> locked.
> Not sure if my son was medling with it. Now to reset its asking to insert
> USB flash drive or removable disk. Its not working though that way. How
> do
> I get it reset now.

No my son is 3 yr old and dont know what he set. Well I do not have
administrative acct also. But someone suggested me that my laptop is Toshiba
make and it has a problem of getting locked automatically. So we need
unscrew at the back remove the small cell and then connect it back and try.
This also resets the pwd. I shall try this today evening.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> Did you create a password reset disk before you got locked out?
> Why not ask your son if he set a password and ask him for it?
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
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>
> "Asha Kiran" wrote:
>
> My system has got locked. we had not set pwd but unfortunately its locked.
> Not sure if my son was medling with it. Now to reset its asking to insert
> USB flash drive or removable disk. Its not working though that way. How do
> I get it reset now.

"Asha Kiran" <AshaKiran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9E70BE79-3208-475C-82A4-13CABCA04A63@microsoft.com...
> No my son is 3 yr old and dont know what he set. Well I do not have
> administrative acct also. But someone suggested me that my laptop is
> Toshiba
> make and it has a problem of getting locked automatically. So we need
> unscrew at the back remove the small cell and then connect it back and
> try.
> This also resets the pwd. I shall try this today evening.
>
>

That's not going to help, from what you have described a password has been
set for Windows, removing the battery for a few minutes will reset a BIOS
password, but not the Windows password.

Check the site that Carey suggested, it should help.

Mic

I have not tried this on Vista yet but in XP Home you could boot to safe
mode using F8 at startup. Once in safe mode there was an Administrator
account that microsoft left with out a password log in and change the
password of your account.


"Asha Kiran" <Asha Kiran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:630483B4-6DA0-445B-83FA-BA47752D0DF9@microsoft.com...
> My system has got locked. we had not set pwd but unfortunately its
> locked.
> Not sure if my son was medling with it. Now to reset its asking to insert
> USB flash drive or removable disk. Its not working though that way. How
> do
> I get it reset now.

Why do you try to use the Windows Password Reset? No need to call a
technician, no need to re-install anything, and you certainly don't need
to reformat. The program will enable you to reset the password to
"Blank" with no -reformatting or installation. Do all the job for you
automatically. It's worth a try. http://www.resetwindowspassword.com


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Alexisxy wrote:

Possible spam. Why direct the OP - in an answered, closed thread btw - to a
program hosted on a questionable website when the goal can be accomplished
natively in Windows?

Malke
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Open CMD, if you can boot if of the LIVE CD, and CLick REPAIR WINDOWS (If Using VISTA) then type - net user Administrator /active:yes

then reboot,
and if the command says its worked and it worked, then your in