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I had changed my password on my laptop just yesterday and cannot remember the password, is there anyway I can retrieve my password without taking it to a specialist. I have a Toshiba laptop with windows Vista on it.

By hisallholiness Asked Sep 17 2009 5:40PM
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by G_tech on Sep 22, 2009 at 1:42 am Permalink

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I heard it is possible on some laptop, and you will just have to play with these 3 keys :
F10-F11-F12 one of them will bring you to a security screen with tabs at the top that give you the choice to change you administrator password.

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by Handydude on Oct 14, 2009 at 8:26 pm Permalink

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Boot up in safe-mode and then bypass user logon by pressing the escape key (which is something you can't normally do if you boot up the regular way...unless, of course you never selected a password since the OS was initially installed). Once in: click 'start'/control panel/user account and then either enable 'guest' or create a new user account.
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by jshm22 on Sep 17, 2009 at 6:03 pm Permalink

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If it's BIOS password then some models just take out the battery.

Windows password then:

home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpass wd
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