password wont work anymore on sony vaio with vista all the sudden. searched on microsoft for help and said they have a reset disk you can make yet it first says login then cntrl alt del etc DUH thats the prob i cant login Any help appreciated much thx eric
Unlikley safe mode will help if it were possible to boot into safe with a password protected OS it would be waste of time having a password in the first place.
Since there's no way of knowing if said laptop is stolen ,the only advice i'll give is F10,F8 or whatever the key is you need to press to start a destructive reformat
Edit: or take it to a sony approved repairer to have it unlocked
There's more than one option in the reformat,so after using f8 or f10 or whatever the key is you need,once it appears click on repair,it'll keep your music,pictures etc intact,it will only rewrite the OS,once finished you'll need to reinstall any third party software in the all programs list,yes the folders are still there but they have been wiped
If your password is in the BIOS, from what I read that can be reset, If it's an older model it's easy, but the later models are more complicated.
Quote:About one third of Sony VAIO's can have the password removed by removing the CMOS battery, the laptop power battery, the hard drive, and the power cord, then letting it sit for 60 hours. This will delete all information in the BIOS, after which you can re-enter time, date, hdd, cdr, and so on.
If the problem is a windows logon administrator password, that's easy to fix with the free "reset" boot cd, I've used a couple of times and it works good.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
