Ever been locked out of your machine and don’t have the admin password to get back in?

Here is a quick way that wont cost you a lot of money to get back into your machine.

Follow the following steps and you’ll be back in before you know it!

Put the Windows XP installer disc into the optical drive (CD/DVD) and restart your PC.

Press any key when prompted with “Press any key to boot from CD”, then wait for the “Welcome to setup” screen to appear, just press enter.

Then press F8 to agree on the license agreement.

On the next screen, you will be prompted to repair or install a fresh copy of Windows XP. You just need to select the locked Windows XP installation you want to enter (If you’ve more than one Windows XP installed) and press “R”.

The system will then reboot after setup checked the disk and copied setup files (Just wait for the system to reboot). And when it reboots, don’t press any key when prompted to “Press any key to boot from CD”.

The setup will be automatically start the setup process. This is the most important steps, you need to wait for the setup to install the devices. Press the combination of SHIFT+F10 when you see the words “Installing Devices” at the bottom of the shown remaining minutes of the setup to finish.

After that, a command console will be open, where in you need to type “NUSRMGR.CPL” (Without the quotes).

You will be then given access to the User Account window similar to the control panel where you will delete or edit your forgotten password. Choose remove if you need to enter the system without entering password or edit if you want to change your forgotten password.

After you delete or edit your account password, close the command windows and let the setup  finish. (You will also be needing to enter the XP product key if prompted)

When setup is finished,  it will reboot. If you deleted  the password it will just log you in automatically. If you changed the password you will need to enter the new one.

thanks to iblogall.com for the eaasy fix.

As our technology grows it is amazing to see some of the ways it gets implemented.   On Wednesday when the State of the Union address is being broadcast users can log on to you tube and ask the President questions directly.  Whether you are for him or against him it is nice in my eyes to see such a direct way of interaction with the Commander in Chief from everyday citizens.

The companies Citizentube will display the State of the Union address  and users can interact with Obama on that page.

more info can be found here.

It  is refreshing to see technology and the Internet being included in something as traditional as the State of the Union address.

Be careful who you friend and what you click on when on social networking sites.  Here is an example of just what can go wrong. http://wokv.com/localnews/2009/12/supervisor-of-elections-falls.html

Mcaffee warns that Facebook and Twitter will be  the cyber-criminals platform of choice for 2010. They will use these sites for collecting personal information as well as sending viruses.  There is a simple thing you can do to minimize your exposure.  Don’t accept friend requests from people you do not know.

Social networking is a great concept but there are inherent risks that come along with it.   Protect yourself as you would in real life and you will be fine.  Read the terms of services for sights that help you with your social networking endeavors.  Some sites will ask you to upload your address book or invite friends.  These same sites use that info you provide, and sell it to 3rd parties.   Read the fine print and use common sense and you should be fine!