Calling all computer geeks

[Huntington Guy]

ok, dug out an old laptop tonight, about 4 years old. Charged it up, turned it on and...I have no friggin idea what the password is.
any suggestions or tricks??
there is a password hint but I'm completely blank on what it means.
heeelp

[Postal Bob]

You didn't write down the password in a secret location just in case?
Was the password added towards the end of when you used it last, or was always in it? If added at end, I would say try the system restore to revert the computer back to a time when you had no password on it. And of course, there's always reloading the whole computer with the recovery disks, as long as nothing of value is on it.

[M-14BULLETTS]

target

[Huntington Guy]

Not written down, no. I can't access anything beyond the log in screen to reset or restore. The password hint makes sense (for 4 years ago) I'm just not hitting the right password.

[Huntington Guy]

target

Lol, I hope not

[StrongBeach]

What OS are you running, if your running XP

http://youtu.be/Ktk9cQuIqBc

[Postal Bob]

You can access the computer repair functions of Windows, by tapping the F8 key during boot up. Though it still may ask for a password to continue with the system restore. Then there's always a total reload of the computer from the recovery disks.

[StrongBeach]

This will work for OS 7

http://youtu.be/PILDBTObzLw

[StrongBeach]

What OS are you running, if your running XP

http://youtu.be/Ktk9cQuIqBc

[Huntington Guy]

It's XP, tried the YouTube and I get stopped and told to reinstall something. I don't have anything to reinstall. I'll screw w it tomorrow, maybe download a reboot disk...
thanks for the help guys, gotta go crash.

[SteveT]

I seem to recall there is a Linux bootdisk that can mount the windows drive, change/remove the password for you. I did it a couple of years ago.

First google search that came up: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...tem-rescue-cd/