I recently bought a computer from a friend, who delivered it with an
account already set up for me. Before dinner, I enabled the
requirement for logins. After dinner, I discovered that the password
he gave me doesn't work.
I have a phone call in to him to confirm the password, but I'm
wondering
Boot into safe mode and disable it.
Stewart
At 08:02 PM 3/24/2008, you wrote:
I recently bought a computer from a friend, who delivered it with an
account already set up for me. Before dinner, I enabled the
requirement for logins. After dinner, I discovered that the password
he gave me doesn
Thanks, Stewart.
Ralph
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It should work I have had to do some similar stuff before.
You might want to set you your own logon and pasword.
Stewart
At 08:41 PM 3/24/2008, you wrote:
Thanks, Stewart.
Ralph
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I spoke too soon. Safe mode (F8) still asks for the password.
Ralph
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It should be the administrators password he setup when he first installed it.
Unless there is a lot of stuff you want to save, a new install is the
way to go.
Stewart
At 08:54 PM 3/24/2008, you wrote:
I spoke too soon. Safe mode (F8) still asks for the password.
Ralph
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>I spoke too soon. Safe mode (F8) still asks for the password.
You should be able to Google a password reset utility quite easily. Last
time I needed to do this the whole process tool barely 10 minutes. You
download a boot disk image with Linux and a script to zero out the
passwords.
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Kind of like removing the old *.pwl file?
Stewart
At 09:20 PM 3/24/2008, you wrote:
You should be able to Google a password reset utility quite easily. Last
time I needed to do this the whole process tool barely 10 minutes. You
download a boot disk image with Linux and a script to zero out the
Kinda...as Tom said it takes ten minutes and that was probably counting
download time and making the disk, probably getting coffee too. Always with
the caveat that you can hoser said system. Although I've reset a dozen
machines and never had an issue. This is a good utility to keep in your
stash
The Full Story (my apologies for not coming-clean, initially): The
computer is a two year old MacBook Pro, and I am new to Apple
products. My friend configured it to dual boot into Windows XP and
Leopard, using Boot Camp, and now I am locked out of the XP boot.
Does this change the recommendation
>The Full Story (my apologies for not coming-clean, initially): The
>computer is a two year old MacBook Pro, and I am new to Apple
>products. My friend configured it to dual boot into Windows XP and
>Leopard, using Boot Camp, and now I am locked out of the XP boot.
>Does this change the recommenda
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