password help

[erik_26]

One of my Co-workers had bought his kids a laptop. He has the Admin account to control his kids computer experiance.

He doesn't use the machine and has forgotten his password. He did not make a recovery disk. He needs to get in to make changes to the machine.

Windows 7


Any ideas?

[Mute]

ophcrack is a windows password recovery tool. If your friend isn't particularly computer savvy, just find someone who is to help him with it.

[IntoForever]

was a password used when setting the computer up? My get away with just hitting enter. Good luck.

[jdewolf]

ophcrack...

+1

[bx9889]

Here's a link to a few free programs and how-to

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/passrecovery.htm

Try this step by step...it should work:

http://harryjohnston.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/resetting-a-password-in-windows-7-or-windows-vista/

[jamesob]

kids use words they are familiar with i.e video games. try popular games at the time he created the password. black ops, call of duty, halo things like that