Lost password on old Laptop

neutral666 · 06-30-2009, 09:32 PM

So my dad gave me his old laptop since I really need one right now. Its fairly old but not too old. Its some Dell Latitude from years ago. Anyway my dad forgot the password to it and I really need to get through it so im looking for help. Ive researched it to no end and I cant find a solution.
Its running XP and the password it asks is in the XP menu. But not the kind where theres different users, the kind where you can type in username. Ive tried the whole Administrator thing but cant seem to get that to work. Problem is this was one of those mini laptops so it doesnt have a CD drive so I can't download any of those third party cracks.
Anyone have any ideas to help me around this ? I dont care if everything on it gets whipped I just need to use the laptop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

**johnb35** · 06-30-2009, 10:33 PM

Boot to safe mode, log into administrator account, go to control panel, user accounts and delete the password for that user. Reboot and you will be able to access that account.

PohTayToez · 06-30-2009, 10:39 PM

If he can't get into the "administrator" account through the main login, then it's passworded, so he won't be able to get in through safe mode either.

It's possible to reinstall XP off of a flash drive, you might look into that. Any discussion of USB bootable cracks would be against forum rules.

**johnb35** · 06-30-2009, 10:54 PM

He didn't say if he booted to safe mode or not, thats why I suggested it.

vinnie107 · 06-30-2009, 11:21 PM

There are portable CD drives that can plug via USB. You could try one of those, and you could also use that for normal use on the laptop.

Jamesreeves_2007 · 07-04-2009, 02:59 AM

what model is it?

06-30-2009, 09:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
neutral666 New Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 12	Lost password on old Laptop So my dad gave me his old laptop since I really need one right now. Its fairly old but not too old. Its some Dell Latitude from years ago. Anyway my dad forgot the password to it and I really need to get through it so im looking for help. Ive researched it to no end and I cant find a solution. Its running XP and the password it asks is in the XP menu. But not the kind where theres different users, the kind where you can type in username. Ive tried the whole Administrator thing but cant seem to get that to work. Problem is this was one of those mini laptops so it doesnt have a CD drive so I can't download any of those third party cracks. Anyone have any ideas to help me around this ? I dont care if everything on it gets whipped I just need to use the laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

06-30-2009, 10:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
johnb35 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Near Joliet Illinois Age: 39 Posts: 3,612	Boot to safe mode, log into administrator account, go to control panel, user accounts and delete the password for that user. Reboot and you will be able to access that account. __________________ Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R CPU - E8400 Memory - 2GB Corsair XMS2 (2x 1gb) Graphics - ATI HD3870 Hard Drives - 250GB Seagate DVD Drive - Lite-On DVD Burner - Lite-On Power Supply - Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W 22" Acer widescreen AL2216WBD

06-30-2009, 10:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
johnb35 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Near Joliet Illinois Age: 39 Posts: 3,612	He didn't say if he booted to safe mode or not, thats why I suggested it. __________________ Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R CPU - E8400 Memory - 2GB Corsair XMS2 (2x 1gb) Graphics - ATI HD3870 Hard Drives - 250GB Seagate DVD Drive - Lite-On DVD Burner - Lite-On Power Supply - Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W 22" Acer widescreen AL2216WBD

06-30-2009, 11:21 PM	#5 (permalink)
vinnie107 Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Daventry, Northampton, Woodford Halse. Posts: 377	There are portable CD drives that can plug via USB. You could try one of those, and you could also use that for normal use on the laptop. __________________ #include<geek.h> 2.2 AMD Phenom Quad Core Nvidia Geforece 8800 mGPU 360GB HDD 3GB RAM Windows Vista 32/Ubuntu 9.04

07-04-2009, 02:59 AM	#6 (permalink)
Jamesreeves_2007 Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South East England Age: 17 Posts: 195	what model is it? __________________ - Windows Vista Home Premuim 32 Bit - HP Pavilion Slimline S3514.uk - Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz - NVidia GeForce 7100/ 630i - 300GB HDD - 2GB DDR2 PC2 6400 Ram - HP w1907v 19" Flatscreen Monitor Nothing Special

06-30-2009, 10:39 PM	#3 (permalink)
PohTayToez Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Illinois Age: 20 Posts: 3,353	If he can't get into the "administrator" account through the main login, then it's passworded, so he won't be able to get in through safe mode either. It's possible to reinstall XP off of a flash drive, you might look into that. Any discussion of USB bootable cracks would be against forum rules.

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