[Brad2]

oki doke,
Thank you both again.

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sorrey to hear you got fed up but there is a program i use at my company to nul a forgotten password most of the time it works ok but if you use EFS encryption you will loose that data by wiping a pssword the program is passwordrenew.exe and you need a working computer to run it on just point it at the windows directory on the target drive and it will display a list of user accounts you can than either change or remove the password and than boot the drive normally.

or if you want to use c as an external drive and only need access to the files you can alwas just take ownership of them using this tutorial http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

thought you would like to know if you ever get locked out of your account again

Edited by mikeloeven, 27 October 2009 - 08:36 PM.

[mikeloeven]

sorrey to hear you got fed up but there is a program i use at my company to nul a forgotten password most of the time it works ok but if you use EFS encryption you will loose that data by wiping a pssword the program is passwordrenew.exe and you need a working computer to run it on just point it at the windows directory on the target drive and it will display a list of user accounts you can than either change or remove the password and than boot the drive normally.

or if you want to use c as an external drive and only need access to the files you can alwas just take ownership of them using this tutorial http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

thought you would like to know if you ever get locked out of your account again

Edited by mikeloeven, 27 October 2009 - 08:36 PM.

[Brad2]

Yes.
Thank you for your time on that.
It is good to know.

I'm now ignoring my PC, knowing the task that is ahead. :-/

My wife got us online last night, so it's just a matter of downloading . . .well, pretty much everything. ;-)

Thanks again all.