Win 7 password help

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A good friend of mine passed away early this morning from cancer. His wife asked me if I could help find and print pictures from his laptop. Here's where I have a problem. He has a windows password on his machine and we have no idea what it is. We also don't have any startup disks.

How can I bypass his password. I've searched google but wasn't able to find anything that helps.
 
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I am sorry for you loss. Cracking the pass is illegal no matter what. You should got to a computer store and get a USB to IDE/ATA cable and connect the Hard Drive to another Windows PC. From the other PC you should be able to browse the Hard Drive and pull anything you need off of it.

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I think but I am not sure, if you hav etheWindows 7 Disk you can run an upgrade and it will do a new install but should save your files. Not 100% on that though. I would go the USB cable. If you need help on that let me know. That is what I use when I clean out viruses and such.
 
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Justturnin said:
Cracking the pass is illegal no matter what and no real pro will crack it. You should got to a computer store and get a USB to IDE/ATA cable and connect the Hard Drive to another Windows PC. From the other PC you should be able to browse the Hard Drive and pull anything you need off of it.
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This is an excellent suggestion. If you go this route, this is the type of device you need:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119152

If you don't want to take the hard drive out, there is other ways to get the data off (a bootable CD of a linux distro) but they tend to need a real Geek to help.
 
Do you think that there might have been a reason for him to have a password? And that one of those reasons might have been that he had stuff on there he didn't want his wife to find out about?
If no one else uses your computer, why do you need a password?

Just a few thoughts.

Lee
 
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leestoresund said:
Do you think that there might have been a reason for him to have a password? And that one of those reasons might have been that he had stuff on there he didn't want his wife to find out about?
If no one else uses your computer, why do you need a password?

Just a few thoughts.

Lee
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When you install 7 you create an account and part of that is a password. If his wife is not computer savy maybe she leaves all that to him. I would ask why DON'T you have a pass on your PC before I asked why you did.
 
Before going to extremes, first just try logging in as administrator (instead of the usual login) with no password.

If this is not possible turn on the machine, tether it to another Windows machine and use the windows file transfer program.
 
Thanks for all the comments and PM's.

His desktop does not have a password. The computer with the password is a netbook. Dave was a professional photographer, perhaps he was concerned about someone getting the files if it got lost.

Dave just got married saturday.
 
ah i never really understood why windows has password on login, its too frakkin to bypass it and continue on - most of the easy ways are already posted

you can also make bootable disk on a usb flash drive, no more cd needed :biggrin: and idiot proof plug&play to bypass windows login pass

often you can start windows in safe mode which can also bypass it, which many people dont consider, you have very few drivers loaded and bad gfx, but boo hoo, hackers dont need eye candy :biggrin: we have our own comps for that

now with all the lovely and easy ideas to get into a computer, for the hell of it what accually stops a such a person? anytime i need to lock up my comp for security reasons, i have yet another usb flash drive :biggrin: and easy enough to set computer to lockup+format on startup if said flash drive is not plugged in :biggrin: technology is wonderful
 
Thanks to everyone that helped with information and PM's. I was able to get into the laptop using a password his stepdaughter provided.

Thanks again.
 
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