Vista password and reinstalling Ubuntu

[Fred Roller]

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:44 -0700, thomas smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It just came to me that the person was assuming that the
> BIOS password was the problem.  There is a BIOS password
> for the computer (its been even longer than 10 years since
> I used it).  Well, I am going to try unplugging the battery first.
> but I think the Windows password is stored within the OS.
> 
> Obviously, the HTML format is creating some sort of problems.
> Sorry.  I hate the HTML format too.  However, the text in the
> other format is very small on the screen.  Maybe 6 - 5 points in
> size.  
> 
> Not to create problems I will read and write using HTML format
> and then convert it to the other one.
> 
> Once I get setup I am going to try some of the other e/m clients
> recommended before.  The last thing I want to do is to be rude 
> to the group and especially to turn off people who are trying to
> help me.
> 
> I have converted this from HTML.   
> 
> Thoams
> 
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> On Sun, 2009-21-06 at 15:31 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
> It has been over ten years since I had a problem with windows. 
> I know about the BIOS password and thought windows what it is 
> might be stored there too.
> 
> Too bad.
> 
> 73 Karl
> 
> 
> 
If you need to recover a password from windows then try this solution:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
I have used it for recovering client windows pc.  This bootable disk
allows you to zero the password of users on your nt builds, to include
vista.  Best of all its a linux based solution ;).  Hope it helps.

-- 
Fred R.
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like Linux, simple.  If you are fighting it, you are doing
something wrong."