Hi katieH84! There are many third-party Live CDs that can be used to recover or remove a forgotten password in Windows:
How to Recover Passwords for Windows PCs Using Ophcrack Null Byte
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Hi katieH84! There are many third-party Live CDs that can be used to recover or remove a forgotten password in Windows:
How to Recover Passwords for Windows PCs Using Ophcrack Null Byte
Reset Lost...
Hi StephanP! The "HomeUsers" group should be equal to the "Users" group in your case. If you want to set "Visitor" as a guest account, you should remove it from any other groups, except "Guests".
The automatic repair loop might be caused by the following issues:
filesystem corruption
corrupt MBR or BCD
improper registry settings
This article covers all the possible reasons and...
Here is another way to set up a new guest account:
1. Open an elevated Command Prompt.
2. Type the following commands one by one to create a guest account named test, press Enter after each:
...
Open your Fingerprint software and you should be able to find the settings to configure Windows to use fingerprint scan instead of password. In my lenovo laptop, there is a setting called "Use...
Hi tollbooth! You can open a Command Prompt with admin rights and run the following command to tell Windows not to scan disk at next reboot:
chkntfs /x D:
Replace D: with the drive letter of your...
Hi lolcocks! In Windows XP, the built-in administrator account is disabled by default, it is invisible at Windows login screen but you can access it from safe mode. Things have changed since Windows...
It seems that the default keyboard layout input for your login screen was changed to French. So when you type the password, you actually got something different from your real password. For example,...
Open an administrative Command Prompt and run the following command to convert an admin account to a standard account.
net localgroup administrators lolcocks /delete
Replacing lolcocks with the...
Microsoft account is a new sign-in option introduced since Windows 8. It might be something new to you.
Hang out in this forum and you'll learn more about Windows 10.
It's usually caused by some newly-installed drivers. Try to uninstall the software you installed recently before your computer crashed with blue screen.
After setting up a Microsoft account with Windows 10, you can go to the Microsoft's online website to change your email password. As the new password does not sync to your OS, you can still log on to...
Your computer is running in tablet mode. To see the desktop, you have to switch to desktop mode.
Do you note the "Applies to" column? The permission only applies to the root folder only, not including its subfolder and files. Here's how to grant full access to the "Users" group:
Click on the...