Forgot Windows ME log on password. How can you reset it?

[boopdeboo2]

I just added a personalized user profile using the control panel & users option. I mis-typed & now I cannot remember what password I typed. I know that I can hit cancel or the"X" & I can go to the default desktop but I want my personal desktop back. How can I reset that windows log on password? THANKS, Regina

[mjc]

Please read...

http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=51222

[boopdeboo2]

DEAR MJC(MODERATOR):

I received your email response to my question about how to reset my Windows ME password. I followed the supplied link that you sent me on the topic. http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=51222

I read moderator "classicsoftware" & moderator "Budfred" answer & the following responses other people posted. I perfectly understand that in this day in time some people are up to no good but I assure you I posted that question in all honestly just trying to get my own personalized desktop settings back. THANK GOD I share my computer with my family. I had just added everyone their own desktop. To correct my problem all I did was delete my desktop where I had forgotten my password & copied one of the other 2 users that I had created & I then just changed my desktop theme & wallpaper back to the one I had originally created for myself. Because I had made both of the other 2 copies for my family off of my original desktop everything was the same. My family had just changed their desktop to a theme that they personally wanted. THANK YOU "karthik" for your reply "yes you cannot consider all PC Guide users to be evil minded". I thank you for pointing out that statement.

I know some people are evil, nosy, or just plain criminals but some of us are just absent minded. I had made 3 different desktop user themes that day. I created each family member with their own personalized desktop & I gave them a simple generic password for their account. I told them what the password was & they then changed their password later to one of their own choosing. I just mistyped something in creating my own password because I used a password that I have been using for over 7 yrs. of having my own desktop theme so I perfectly well knew what my password should have been. Hey it happens sometimes! PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES!!!

My family each knows each others desktop password because we have nothing to hide from each other!!!

We just wanted our own desktop theme again like we had before I upgraded our computer. NO BIG DEAL!!!

P.S.
If someone really wants to know someones password we all know that they sell password code breakers over the internet & from your local store.

So someone who is really up to no good can find out what your password is, what you've typed in your emails, keystrokes, IM's, websites you have been to etc.

Employers, jealous spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, even some parents have used these sort of programs to spy on people they know. You can turn on any computer tech show, talk show, & the local news & they are always telling people how to spy on each other. They even have spy stores just for the sole purpose of spying on other people!!!

I personally don't agree with parents or anyone who puts spy software on their children's or home computers. If you have to go to the lengths of adding spy software to your child's or your home computer you have bigger problems then you think with your child, lover, or whoever!!!

What type of relationship do you have with the person you are spying on? If it's your child how did you raise your child? Did you raise them that they can trust you & that you trust them no matter what? Does your child feel like they can honestly talk to you & you listen without judgement? If it's your husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend you don't trust why would you want to be in a relationship where there is so much mistrust???:confused:

I was raised by 2 wonderful parents who trusted me & raised me with love & mutual respect. My parents would go to visit my relatives for 1-2 weeks over the holiday break & as I got older I didn't want to go because truthfully visiting my relatives was quite boring!!!

So when I was 14 years old. my parents let me stay at home I had a older brother who was 20 at the time & he worked. We stayed home & no we didn't throw wild parties or hang out all night. When I turned 16 my father even left me the keys to his car to use while they were out of town. I later found out years later from some of my neighorbors that they would be watching me & my brother to see if we were mis-behaving. They told me after I had went away to college how proud they were that as a teenager I never had boys over while my parents weren't home or was throwing wild shindigs!!! :) My mother laughs about this to this day because she never asked them to spy on us because she knew what type of children she had raised & what our character was! She told me she never worried about us because she knew that she had raised us to do the right thing! We would talk to her & my dad once every couple of days while they were gone to let them know we were fine & that was it.

Employers are a totally different topic with the computer spyware installed on company computers because we know of some employees who are selling out their employers, stealing, wasting company time, surfing the net for frivilous activities while they are suppose to be working & they are costing their employers tons of lost time & wages.

This is the 1st time I have ever posted a question on this topic but judging from your answer you must have been asked this question quite a number of times & I quote you

"PCGuide is reputed to give good information about any number of PC problems as long as they don't cross the line to unethical behavior... We have been very clear about that for a long time and this is just further clarification of that stance... There is NO way to be sure the person on the other end is some poor person who simply lost his/her password or if it is someone who just stole a laptop from a rival company and wants to steal the information on that computer to give him/her an edge on the business...

We cannot stop other people giving information on illegal or unethical behavior and we cannot even stop some of the info we give people being used in those ways... However, this is something that crosses a clear line and we can opt to stay on one side of that line...

This policy was not posted here for argument and debate... This is the policy of PCGuide and it will be followed...
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Thanks for responding to my post but like I said my question was in no way meant as a means of creating a criminal act-yes I know you don't know that but SOME OF US ARE STILL VERY HONEST PEOPLE EVEN IN THIS DAY & yes I totally understand your neutral policy & stance on this topic!!!
Thanks

[Budfred]

We have been over all of the points that you make before and posted that policy after that debate... We are very aware that many people are not asking for help to recover passwords for nefarious reasons and we are not suggesting that they are... We are saying that we don't know and we do not want to help someone who may be doing something illegal or even dangerous... Yes, the info can be found elsewhere and so can just about any info you can think of, such as how to build a rootkit program to steal personal info and rob someone... However, we would not allow that to be posted here either...

I hope you take advantage of the other areas of expertise offered at PCGuide even though this door is closed...