Daughter's been off to college, and trying to use her old Thinkpad R31, but it asks for her user name and password, and she can't remember it.
Any way to work around this?
dwcraig 0 Newbie Poster
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
Daughter's been off to college, and trying to use her old Thinkpad R31, but it asks for her user name and password, and she can't remember it.
Any way to work around this?
is that a windows password/username or the Bios password ,can you get to the windows login screen,if yes ,then boot computer while hitting the f8 key to go to safe mode ,choose administrator acct, and go to users in the control panel and remove password from you daughters user account .
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Yes, thats the way to do i under windows
Is it 98/NT/2k/XP?
If you mean the HDD password then you are out of luck. I lost it for my old R30 and IBM said i would require a new motherboard (luckily i remembered it)
Suspishio 32 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Often the user Administrator is defaulted to no password. try it.
Otherwise there are utilities available (google it) to reset locked accounts.
dwcraig 0 Newbie Poster
Thanks - just treid - but it's the Windows XP Log On to Windows that I can't get past
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Yeah hit F8 repeatedly when it starts up and choose SAFE MODE . Lost of text will flow down the screen and the graphics will look crappy but dont worry, thats ok. Once you ecentually get to the welcome screen you will see an account thats not usually there called "administrator". It SHOULD have no password
dwcraig 0 Newbie Poster
Got it --- THANKS to all!!
big jeff 0 Newbie Poster
find lost user name and password for ibn thinkpad 2660 windowsxp
please help.
big jeff
isaac vakai 0 Newbie Poster
ok i have ibm thinkpad laptop and brother was playing my account through admin and then he went on command and then type down net user isaac(which my admin acc)then he typed net user isnack2(which the name for the system) and now i cant log in my account even though i knoe the password by heart
and problem is i have no other account to log in
Karen00100 0 Newbie Poster
I just found an old IBM thinkpad I used to use. I want to give it to my grandson to use, but I can't remember the password. Is there a way to reset it or recover it?
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
I just found an old IBM thinkpad I used to use. I want to give it to my grandson to use, but I can't remember the password. Is there a way to reset it or recover it?
check the post above by jbennet
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