Thread: Holy Crap!

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Well, we screwed up!
After 2yrs the wife decides to take the other user names off her log on, so she didn't have to hit an extra time when she turns her computor on. After removing me and the guests from it, just before she rebooted it, I told her to un check the the thingy to log in differently, and then she hit the restart, it shut down, then rebooted and then BOOM!!! enter your pass word........................... she said "I don't remember it!"........................she has tried everything she & I can think of, but Nope! it won't let her in. Then to make things funner, is that the CD drive doesn't work. I have been meaning to get another one.

Oh! she's not laughing anymore, I think I need help!, She say's ASAP, I think I need to hide untill it works again!

Pat

Denny, that's some funny stuff. My buddy bought a laptop, tried it out for several weeks, then sold it to another buddy. He was mad at all the steps he had to go through to get it to work, said it should have an on/off switch like the lights in the garage.

Denny sounds like i should put my hammer back in the garage huh.

I know that feeling Had Norton trouble took over what sites it let me see and getting on line in general . Wiped it out have McAfee now but still dont like it sluggish so may go back to AVG its free and worked great .

I swear, I don't have a clue what you guys are talking about. I only understood HOLY Crap!
Ken

Originally Posted by DennyW

Same here. AVG works the best. I've tried several, and no go...so out they went...

I've used Kaspersky for the last couple of years or so and I think it's a pretty good system. McAfee is pricey and a pain in the butt and Norton is absolutely worthless.

I am with ken. but at least he figured how to post pictures I haven't figured that out yet I am probably too old ...ted

Originally Posted by ted dehaan

I am with ken. but at least he figured how to post pictures I haven't figured that out yet I am probably too old ...ted

When you post a reply just click on the paperclip in the upper part of the header. That will let you attach a picture.
I'm not very good at explaining such things, Denny can explain it better than I can.
Ken

Another way to reset passwords is to take the side panel off of the computer tower and gain access to the motherboard. On the motherboard you should see a round style watch battery. Remove it for a few minutes then replace it and it should reset all passwords to the default settings.

I'm kinda in the same boat as Ken. I just fumble through this stuff. Sometimes it
works and sometime it doesn't.

Originally Posted by shoprat

I'm kinda in the same boat as Ken. I just fumble through this stuff. Sometimes it
works and sometime it doesn't.

I hear ya!
We worked on it for some time, later it was just sitting there, (hours later) and I reached over and hit the enter and it loaded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE WAS NO PASSWORD!!!!!! She had never put one in it, we now remember it because we didn't want to forget it!
Least it works again.

Now I guess I should set my main computor up and try to recover my MasterCam drawings & pictures from it. It has a error that say's "HAL.DLL is corrupt or missing." I brought it to Circuit City (70 miles one way) because they said it was a easy fix, after 3 weeks they called said they can't do it, and charged me $105.00 for nothing. They didn't have the right program to do it.
The MasterCam drawings & pic's are more inportant then the computor to me.

Maybe I should go sleep at a Holiday Inn first!

Thanks for all the help!!!!!!!!

Pat

I had a similar problem with Best Buy. Bought a computer and it had issues within a year. I took it into Best Buy which was an hour away and they had it for a week or so. Best Buy said it was the manufacturer's responsibility and the manufacturer said it was Best Buy's responsibility. I didn't have to pay for it, but they did offer to sell me another computer. Needless to say, I walked out with my piece of junk and never bought another computer from them.

Pat you and your wife were lucky. I was beginning to see a new computer in your future.

I've been messing with these things for nearly 30 years (45 if you included the mainframes ) and they never fail to amaze me or frustrate me. I think they have actually extended my life, because I absolutely refuse to let them win.

Now that we are confused I'll hijack this thread a bit - what kind of trouble am I going to run into if I change out the mother board and CPU** of my current home built desk top? I've seen 57 varieties of potential problems, but nothing that is consistant for my XP OS. I have continued to have lock up problems that I'm tracing back to the USB connection area. Some days, no problems, today, 4 times. I've tried to download updated drivers from MSI, the mobo manufacturer, but to no avail. I'll make a couple more attempts but after Christmas/New Years week so if I 'disappear' for a while........

** different manufacturers Intel/Asus possibly

Originally Posted by mopar34

Pat you and your wife were lucky. I was beginning to see a new computer in your future.

Don't say that, It's only about 2 yrs old, the CD went out 6 months after we got it. I still have to fix my other Dell (new hard drive, need to pull info from old one first), this one I'm using right now is a real slow one that my mother-inlaw gave me.

Pat