How do you change a password on a laptop without knowing the original password?

you forgot to tell us what password.


Is it a bios password or windows password?





For Windows Password, As far as I know , there are two main methods to solve the windows password problem as follows:





1st Method:


Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys twice and it'll show Classic Login box. Now type \Administrator\ (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.


Now you can reset your account password from \Control Panel - User Accounts\.


Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.





2th Method:


Windows password Recovery software:


for example:Windows Password Recovery Tool 3.0 . It is easy and convenient to use.








For Bios Password, also two methods.


1st method . Open you computer box and Discharge to the Board manually


2st method . use BIOS/CMOS Password Recovery Tool








Hope it help to you.|||Try to boot into Safe Mode With Networking ....





Generally you have a Administrator account visible along with general user account . This administrator account is hidden in normal boot.





Click on that and if you login .. You are in..





on cmd prompt type





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%26gt;net user


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find the account name to change password or remove password.


If the name is XYZ , type this to remove password


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%26gt;net user XYZ ""


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or to set a password type this


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%26gt;net user XYZ PASSWORD


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If there's a password to the administrator account.. You have a technique to change Admin password using a LINUX LIVE cd.|||For XP Professional





Start-Run-LUSRMGR.MSC


user


Right Click on User and click on set the password.|||It completely depends on the operating system and the reason you want to do this.