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Question posted by Deljoy on December 15th, 2011

How To Reset Forgotten Password Win7

How can I reset my password on my compaq cq42? someone changed it and not even my recovery mem card will work to change it back now :( Did factory reset to defaults. but it is still prompting me for a password i don''t know :(

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