Lost password

[BcB]

I have a HP ze4900 series laptop which I finally got around to replaceing the Cmos battery, its been probably about a year since it was running. Good news is the teardown went fine and its up and running but the bad news is I cant remeber the password I had on it to log into windows, What are my options with this???? It is running windows XP for the OS.

Thanks for any suggestions

BCB

[shadowpr]

Unfortunately, we can't tell you how to bypass passwords on this site.

You could try calling hp, and seeing if they can help you to get back into the system.

[BcB]

Thanks much Shadowpr, I do understand the position. I'll give them a shot and see what happens

[shadowpr]

Actually, try microsoft first: http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/189126/en-us

[BcB]

Thanks Shadowpr
I finally remembered it after a zillion tries LOL. I did call HP and they would provide a solution, but for a nominal fee of 49.95 !!!

BCB

[shadowpr]

Glad you got it figured out.

But at least it helped kill a day, and you probably thought of a bunch of new passwords to use in the process....lol.

[glc]

Now you need to set a password hint and create a reset disk.

[BcB]

You know on all my other comps I do set a hint , but on this one I'm stumped as to why I didnt. I do know that if im going to let one set for awhile I will remove the password from now on. As for the reset disk, I will just pay abit more attention from now on

Thanks for your help, great forum.

BCB