Troubleshooting Windows Vista (Part 3)
Nikhil Rastogi, May 25, 2008 1251 hrs IST
The expert's back to help you out of your Vista-esque nightmares
Help! I recently changed my admin password in Windows Vista but cannot remember for the life of me what it was. Now, I'm completely locked out of Vista, I don't want to format and reinstall Vista as I've my important documents there.
Windows Vista comes with a very handy feature from Windows ME days -- System Restore. Vista's System Restore is far more sophisticated than its previous iterations and can be of a real help here.
1. Just pop in the Vista DVD, make sure your BIOS is able to boot (start) from DVD-ROM first.
2. Press any key to boot from DVD when asked.
3. Set the Language to install, Time and currency format and Keyboard or input method
4. Now click Repair your computer, select the operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next.
5. Click System Restore, and then click Next.
6. Click the restore point that was a day before you changed the password, and then click Next.
Doing this will set your computer back in time to the particular date when it was working fine. Don't worry, you won't lose any data -- only that any settings or programs installed after that date will not be accessible anymore. All you've to is re-install and redo any settings that you did.
7. Confirm the disks that you want to restore, and then click Next.
8. Click Finish, and then click Yes when you are prompted.
9. When the System Restore process is complete, hit Restart computer.
10. You can either remove the Windows DVD or just don't hit any key on the keyboard when it asks again to "Press any key." The computer will start much faster if you remove the Vista DVD.
11. After the computer restarts, click Close to confirm that the System Restore process has finished successfully.
12. After you log on with the old password, change the password for the administrator account if you like.
13. This step is most important -- Remember the password this time.
14. Restart the computer to make sure that your new password works fine.
Till next time, folks. Happy computing.
USER COMMENTS
by Chinmay, Kolkata, on May 28, 2008 11:56 PM, Report abuse Reply
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Buddy, just tell me u don't expect to run crysis on it either...........whats xp for...
by Vineeth, Bhilai, on May 26, 2008 04:02 PM, Report abuse
as if we never knew these stuff..... well the best way to master vista is to use it continuously........ and if that doesn't help switch to XP .... . when i found out that my D' link External wi-fi adapter & external blue tooth wont work on my vista , i changed to XP
by Vineeth, Bhilai, on May 26, 2008 03:57 PM, Report abuse Reply
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