Windows 7 Asking For Password But One Was Never Set Up
Jun 3, 2012
If this is has been posted before I'm sorry, I have spent 2 hrs searching threads with success. Here goes I have a Windows 7 Home premium I lost power the other night and when the power came on the computer rebooted and asked for a password for user. None was ever set up. An admin password was never set either. Can't log in, can't do anything. Do not have a reset disk.
I am attempting to setup Homegroup for first time on new computer, I was asked to set a password. The first pw was only 7 letters. It was rejected as requiring 8 letters. Attempted to re-enter new password and program states its the wrong password.When I go to the homegroup page there is no link to see and change password.
I recently suffered a trojan virus attach and ultimately have changed my password on my email server.I have tried to reset it to the new password in Windows mail multiple times. It keeps reverting to the old password as the saved password, and I continually have to retype in the new password. I tried resetting the password to nothing, and rebooting, and the old password comes back again.There must be a preference file or an ini file that I can edit. Can I do that without loosing my address book, etc.?
i want to creat new user in AD ,but this message appear: password doesn't meet password policy, before i change some policies but now they are not defiend
Machine has Windows 7 Ultimate. I recently changed the hard drive. When I went boot, the screen displayed "Enter Password ". This machine has never had a password and I am at a loss as to what is wrong. This machine has previously been running well for over six months. Any HD that I substitute (I've tried four) has the same result.
Untill yesterday my homegroup was working just fine. Two laptops / home premium / windows 7.Now when I try to access it I am prompted for a Network user name and password, the same promt giving details of my domain. This is not my homegroup password, I know where and how to find / use it. I have renamed pc's tried setting up homegroup again etc etc. Incidently I cant change the share options on any of my folders now, they are all locked to 'Nobody'.Can anyone help as it appears to have support from Microsoft for their product I'll have to pay pardon my igronance but if I sold a product with constant updates I wont charge for the support.
I've always thought of networking as one of the black arts.
4 PCs - One Vista, 2 Windows 7 Home Premium, 1 Windows 7 Ultimate. All see each other. All have appropriate folders shared.
Try accessing A from B and I get "Enter Network Password (to connect to B)". I never set one up to start with, so why is it asking me for it. How do I access/change something I never set?
Try accessing B from A - I see the PC, and the folders I want but trying to access them results in "You do not have permissionto access folder names Contact your network administrator - who he? Obviously me but I don't know what the answer is!
Trying similar things with the other two PCs in the mix results in various permutations of the same problem.
I have tried all the various links suggested through Networking and Help, but most of the actions seem to be boxes to click to make the PCs try to sort themselves out. When it fails I can't find a manual way of trying to sort it out.
Any suitable tutorials that may help? Couldn't see any.
When I try to set a password for new account, I always get "password does not meet the password policy requirements" error. Password Policy is disabled, of course.Prime suspect is HP ProtectTools Security Manager but I cannot remove it because uninstall throws Error 1001.My colleague has identical system (hardware + software) with the exception of not using HP ProtectTools (he probably removed it immediatelly after starting up his new system several m of this kind.
I unchecked the box that says users must enter a password to use this computer. I still get a message at every logon that the password or user is wrong. Huh?
Why does Microsoft have to make things so hard? Why can't they simply have a single user option that eliminates all passwords and the complicated director structure that results?
I have a laptop from customer who has forgotten the password and needs important photos extracted from it before i wipe it clean for a reinstall , thing is she cant remember the password her daughter used on it and she doesnt speak to her daughter anymore so asking for password is a no go... is there a way to get in or reset password?I cant use my Knoppix discs to extract photos because the laptop has a dual hard-drive setup in RAID and both my knoppix discs wont load saying "cant find file system" so im assuming its the RAID setup confusing it.
So it seems like windows 7 corrupted the password I set for the admin account because it did not work. Probably because I set the password then set it up to do automatic login using the 'control userpasswords2' command. So now i am using a vista password cracker but it can't seem to find the registry? It states it is in winnt/system32/config but when i type that in, it does not find it. is the registrysam file in a different location? If so can someone please list it here?
I have recently installed windows 7 home premium and never set a password upon installation (it's a home pc and didn't feel the need to - bad call I'm sure!).Anyway...I restarted my pc today and it is now asking for a password. I have no idea what this could be. I tried everything I know...I did not install any new software. I did however install windows updates. Do you have any idea what happened and why it's asking me for a password? Is there some default password? I did a google search for quite a while and found nothing.
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My husband has started up his new windows 7 Toshiba laptop and put a password in. Is there any way in which this can be removed? I think that it must have face recognition, as his password doesn't work for me. Either of us can get into *my* Vista laptop (set up by an 'expert')and we wanted theis to be the same.Most annyoying as I was meant to be organising the internet connection etc while he was out and I have only got as far as making the recovery disks before I left it for 30 minutes and it turned itself off.
since the crash on my computer by trying to get rid of safesearch bar ive managed to get most things working but to log on i have to keep putting my password in to log on and another the@ sign has moved to the number 2 on my keyboardany replys would be gratefull, Nutty norm ps w/7
WindowsStar, my wife's problem is similar, only her Windows 7 Starter won't take her password, so she can't get to the welcome screen. I've pulled the battery off, and also did a restart. Still, the only option is type the friggin' password, and it won't take it.
Im running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Just 5 minutes ago i wanted to start up my PC. I came at the login windows and choose my user account. I entered the password, its in front of me on paper, but windows did not recognize this password. I tried with my admin account, also no go with its unique password. I restarted the system and then i was able to login. What happenend?
It seems that I was not paying attention when setting up Win 7 for the first time on my new computer. After a reboot it is asking me for my PW. I don't have a clue. Other sources say I now need to reinstall Win 7 but no disk comes with the unit (lenovo).
unlocking windows 7 password, it is my best friend's computer , the password is forgotten, i have searched all the time on the net but all the software i tried did not work,,, i do not really want to re-insall Windows 7 again, many programs and software to keep?
My computer turns on, but according to my settings i have to type in my password only then the windows 7 will boot. But it turns on and doesnt ask password to proceed further.It just gets stuck there. But it does ask password when opened in safe mode and so in ubuntu.
I recently set up my children's new dell pc and and it has of course window 7.. We all forgot the password and I never did the password back up disk. I have windows 7 that I can reinstall but I cant get to that step.