I have acer aspire 5100 - I'm trying to get the laptop to factory settings, I pressed f8, am able to go through with some questions, then it ask me for admin password ... the computer doesn't have a password? Does it have a normal password to get into the hard-drive?
There use to be on computers in the restore to reset to factory settings, how come they did away with that? It made it so much easier to restore a computer...urgh...
Any help would be appreciated...
The experience that I forgot Windows password happened to me a few weeks ago. And my classmate recommends me to take use of Windows Password Recovery 6.0, which is very smart and just take me a short time to reset a new password. It is great and you can find it by clicking blue words。
If
you happen to forgot
windows
password, you
could enter
into safe mode (F8 when booting up) to reset
windows password while
you didn't
remember user account password, but
when you forgot administrator
passwords,
there's
no way to change it, you should
use program
to recover administrator
password. Last
week, I forgot my Windows admin
password. At
last, I
used Windows Password Seeker to reset
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try.
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I think you have to make a rest disk with windows password recovery tool. Burn a boot CD with the program, and insert it into the problem computer and your password will be reset to “Blank”, without losing any data and you needn't reinstall windows OS. You can download it from http://www.windowsloginrecovery.com
I know a simple way to bypass windows password when you forgot windows administrator password,it need not to reinstall windows OS,and wont loss any data,by using "Any Windows Password Recovery 3.0 ". Maybe this could help you.
The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account “Administrator” and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget Your user account password then try this:
Start system and when you See Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys Twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.
Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts”.
Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.
Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to recover forgotten Password by using “Reset Disk”. If you created a Password Reset Disk in Past, you can use that disk to reset the password. To know more about It, please visit http://www.recoverwindowspassword.com/
Your doing most of it right. you need to press F8 and then disable the administrator password. problem solved
If you need to restore the system to factory setting then oyu need to follow a few steps...but before that let me inform ou that doing a restore to factoring setting will erase all your perosnal setting movies musics and personal files ...it will be like a new OS the way it was shipped to you from the factory....if you like to do that...then turn of the system....when the system restarts hold the AltGr button down(on the right side of the space bar) and then keep tapping the F10 key...you wil get a msg Windows is loading file....and it is give you an option to do a complete system recovery....proceed from there... hope this will help you.... thx rocky
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I try that, it says:
edit windows boot options for: microsoft windows vista
path: \windows\system32\winload.exe
partition:2
hard disk: 301101f
[ /noexecute=optin
at bottom left it says
enter=submit
I hit enter and windows just starts up ...
I've done this like 10 times today, and windows just starts up each time ...I can't get the option to show up to restore ... I think it should show 2 options and it shows one ...
When I did the f8 - it had me do a repair, and well, I get to a point it ask for a password ... and I can't move any further ...
I found the answer!!!!!!! #1 worked for me!
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Perform a system recovery:
Does not come with recovery cd's - there is a program that allows you to burn the disks or
recover.
3 ways:
1. If in Windows - Start - Programs - Acer empowering technology - Acer E-recovery management -
click on Restore at bottom then "Restore to factory default settings"
2. Or click on Burn disks instead of restore
3. if unable to ge into Windows then Alt/F10 during boot right after Acer splash screen on startup
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