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I bought a ton of escrap last week and was going through the computers and found one I liked to use for myself......It is complete but it is password protected......How do I unlock it to use this puter for myself.....I am not much of a tech guy, I mainly sell the newer computers as is and scrap anything older than Pentium 4
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Alt del right click double click space bar. No just kidding, I'm not UP to date anymore, quit being heavy into tech back in 04.or so.
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Experienced Scrapper
Please clarify
The windows account login password or the BIOS password?
Experienced Scrapper
If its the windows login password - do a search on the net, there are programs out there for that. I used to have a linux program for that. But I cannot remember the name of it.
I hope that helps
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yeah google it there are some links to downloadable software to run and it will hack it so to speak.
Experienced Scrapper
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eWaste Hunter
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You can do all of that if you want to keep the information on the computer. If you don't, you have two options. (1) Exchange the hard drive, or (2) Pull the hard drive, then plug it into your existing computer. Your computer will display the new drive in My Computer. Right click and select Format. WARNING: SELECT THE CORRECT DRIVE TO FORMAT. DO NOT FORMAT YOUR ORIGINAL DRIVE.
Put the formatted drive back in the original computer and do a clean install of Windows.
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I've used this for years with great success...
Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor
You'll need to burn it to a bootable disk then boot from that disk. It's very simple to use.
i know this works in xp. boot the computer in safe mode then log in as the administratorm you shouldnt need a password, go to the control pannel and under the user acounts there should be an option to remove a password from the other account. reboot and you shouldnt need the password. if the password is on the administrator account i know there is a way to do it nut cant remember, there were some good youtube videos on the procedure
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There are many different freeware programs on the net as have been mentioned here. Most work very well with Windows XP, but some do have limited success with Windows 7. I use Kon Boot and they do have a free version, although we use the paid for version in our shop. Hard drive passwords are a bit trickier. We use a forensic program called Elcomsoft for a wide range of password cracking. One thing you might do is check with your friends, or friends of friends and I am sure you will find some amateur tech person in your circle of friends and family who can be in that computer in a hot second. Really if someone brings a machine in our shop and I am convinced that it is not stolen I will usually get them in their machine for free. It is just so easy and fast that if you help folks out with that sort of thing they will come back and do business with you when they need help with a more difficult problem.
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Experienced Scrapper
I just dealt with this last week. I had the exact same scenario, a laptop I took in as scrap was working and better than my current laptop, so I wanted to keep it. The problem was that it had a password on the Windows 7 and I couldn't get in. I tried ophcrack and Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor, but neither worked for me. Then I found Kon-Boot, but they wanted me to use the paid version to get into Windows 7. I wanted a free solution.
Ultimately what worked for me, to get into a Windows 7 machine, was using the SystemRescueCD described here:
How to Break Into a Windows PC (And Prevent It from Happening to You)
I should note for those trying this method, it is a little techy and you need to pay attention to what you are doing. If you are careful, it is not really all that hard. People with Linux experience will have a much easier time, but it is not necessary. Also, in my case the filename "SAM" could not be found, so I had to keep listing all the files in each new directory I entered by using the -l command in each directory. Eventually, I found the file that I needed was "sam" not "SAM". It is case sensitive, so if it doesn't work for you at first, if you carefully toy with it you should be able to get the password reset. Then you can get into your new machine.
Here is a short video of the guy who wrote the article using this method:
Now for a bonus. Once I unlocked the machine, and logged into Windows it was showing an error that this was "Not a Genuine Copy of Windows." I recalled that my customer had mentioned that he never finished registering his software, so this wasn't all that unexpected. Nonetheless, I found a fix for how to remove this problem too. Here is a link to a site that helped me figure that out:
Remove Windows not Genuine Watermark without Patches and Cracks
Finally, I know this may not work for everyone. I can only report that it worked for me, and now I am enjoying my new dual core laptop running Windows 7 that I paid scrap prices for.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Yesterday I got a computer from a girl moving out of my parents apt complex...whole setup (with flatscreen). She was just going to toss it in the dumpster....anyway, it had windows vista, of course, locked. Couldnt get on through safe mode. Cant say I cared to know what was on the computer anyway....well awhile back my gf got a copy of Win 7 from work...so I installed 7 over vista, erasing the computer and allowing me access. It now plays solitaire nicely. After I inspect it a little more, I plan to sell it.
New Guy
Run hirens boot cd. easy to find a copy.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
First try booting in Safe mode and use Administrator with no password. You will be surprised how many times that works.
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