Windows XP Home Edition SP1<BR><BR> After installing the Recovery Console I find I cannot use the repair function.<BR> Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 307654 How to install and use the Recovery ...

The need to reset or recover your admin password for your account can happen for a variety of reasons – we were once in this position when we messed around with settings on our Mac and then forgot the ...

The administrator account of your HP laptop regulates most settings on your computer and has access to all other user accounts. In general, it's a good idea to periodically change your password to ...

A forgotten or unknown administrator or supervisor password on an IBM ThinkPad can cause great concern if you cannot access it and it has important data. Unlike the power-on password, you cannot reset ...

Lately, it seems the more Windows computers I work on, the more users have forgotten their password, or they didn’t tell me the password, and when I can’t reach them, I am stuck with no option to get ...

This article is over four years old and some details have changed. For up-to-date help, read “Three Ways to Reset a Lost Admin Password in High Sierra” (5 July 2018). Several years ago, I was helping ...

Q. We have three company computers running Windows 7, and we can access them with user accounts. However, no one knows those computers’ administrative passwords, which is preventing us from connecting ...

More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

Passwords increase security, but they can also increase your headaches if they're lost. When a password goes missing, don't panic: Just use the techniques and software detailed here to recover it.