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Hi I just Got a computer from a friend and she forgot her password and she never made a recovery disk. We can get into the comand promt when not loged in, so we wanted to know if there was any way to change password throgh the command prompt and what would I type?
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you are a genius... thank you so much really saved my bacon. the method works great solved the problem in 5mins, after hours of trying to download working password boot disks with no success apart from attracting trojans. would recommend this to everyone.
if anyone cant get this method to work your not doing it right, basically.
Hi
No, this cannot be done. Here is more information.
Regards,
Ronnie Vernon MVP – Windows Desktop Experience
This is not the full story but let's wait and see what Joe reports about the Command Prompt.
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How exactly did you get into the Command Prompt when not logged on? By booting into Repair Mode?
