Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic locked out of laptop 2...safe mode help Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post baileysababy6 Posted at 10:52 am on July 3, 2008 http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-yayapns-support-a-x-062447290881310.html there's the link to the first topic i posted. now that i know about safe mode, it still won't let me onto it, because the administrator account is the one with the password. is there any way i could safely crash it, but keep everything on there, or is there another "safe mode" type thing?

Replies marshmellowman Posted at 11:28 am on July 3, 2008 Quote: from baileysababy6 at 7:22 pm on July 3, 2008 what do i do now? I'm not sure, there is a way to change the password, but it's fairly complicated and you can screw things up. You have to burn a CD with a small linux distro that will reset the password, but I'm not sure whether this works for Vista. There is also a guide that you can use with the original install disk with XP here, but like I said that's for XP and might not work with Vista (and more importantly it might cause other problems or lose your data). In this case I'd advise you to pay the GeekSquad or a local computer expert and get them to do it for you. 30 or 40 dollars is quite expensive for this, but that above steps are not easy and may not work with Vista, which is why I'd say pay for it. Ask your parents if they could lend you the money or pay for it. If they ask you what your password was before just make something up because clearly knowing the current one won't help anyway. baileysababy6 Posted at 11:22 am on July 3, 2008 what do i do now? baileysababy6 Posted at 11:13 am on July 3, 2008 yeah, it only shows one account. marshmellowman Posted at 11:12 am on July 3, 2008 Quote: from baileysababy6 at 7:07 pm on July 3, 2008 i have vista. does that make a difference? but yes, that's the screen i get. It might do, Vista's trickier. From your PM: but instead of having one that says admin. and one that has another name, i changed the admin. name to my name and that's the main account that i can't get into. So do you see nothing actually called Administrator like in my screenshot? Does it just show one (your) account? That is a problem to do that because it can cause other problems with Windows, but I'm not too sure that's what you actually did. baileysababy6 Posted at 11:07 am on July 3, 2008 i have vista. does that make a difference? but yes, that's the screen i get. marshmellowman Posted at 11:06 am on July 3, 2008 Do you get something like the image below in Safe Mode? Does it say Administrator, or just your normal name? All 6 previous replies displayed.