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Question posted by sandramcguire on November 28th, 2011

Password

when the computer comes on it has my grandson's name and says put in password which we don't know

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Answer #1: Posted by kcmjr on November 29th, 2011 9:49 AM
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I would simply ask him what it is.  Beyond that you'll need to hack the password.  A service tech can bypass the password in under 10 seconds.

If you can download a CD image and burn it to a disk you can do it yourself.  See this site for details.  http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/


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