pr0f Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 hello everyone, can anyone help? pls - something weird just ahppened to me! - I believe i might have entered my own password wrongly more than three times and since I was in hurry i didnt pay attention to the screen but went on typing then the right password paying more attention - I'm not sure of this, again cos i was rushing things up, but i think a different small login window appeared, in this process of typing wrong passwords, and I quickly pressed 'enter'. After this suddenly my own password did not work anymore, even typing it 100% correctly; it looks like now i can just login into my account with just a smple <ok> or 'enter' - What happened to my password? has my account being disabled by some weird microsoft hidden safety options? How come can i now login just by simply hitting 'enter'? how do i restore it? many thanx for your help!p.s.: i run a Windows 2004 Server, with no other user's accounts. just Administrator (me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike567 Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 cannot give out this information.forum rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pr0f Posted September 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 cannot give out this information.forum rules. i thought this was a forun/chat room to help with some basic stuff! I'm not a hacker or a terrorist and I dont believe that some basic info on how to restore a blocked account could harm anyone in any ways! beside, I bet that I can probably find such info on any PC magazine, so i still dont understand how and why this is such HOT info!never mind!thanx anyway!p.s.: now i remember why long time ago i switched to linux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pr0f Posted September 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 by the way... all i needed to know was that pressing 'ctrl-alt-del' and then 'change password' would allow me to restore or change my password! - in case someone gets stuck with the same problem!thnax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 23, 2007 Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 We have no way of knowing who you are. Help is always forthcoming for any other problem, but NOT bypassing pass words. Can you reinstall Windows, or do you have a backup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike567 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Someones not happy :lol:.I stick to the rules :).Glad to see you prefer linux though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 You should never run as Administrator. You can make another Administrator account if you would like, but the Administrator account prevents things like this.Log into Administratorstart > run > control userpasswords2select a user and click "reset password"This allows you to reset anyones password, but it cannot work for yourself nor can we provide links to accessing the administrator password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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