USING WINDOWS XP, WE ARE LOCKED OUT OF THE COMPUTER BECAUSE THE USER HAD A STROKE AND CANNOT WRITE OR TALK. WE ARE UNABLE TO SET ANOTHER USER AND PASSWORD BECAUSE WHEN THE COMPUTER BOOTS UP IT STOPS AT THE SCREEN LISTING THE USER AND WANTS A PASSWORD WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE. HELP!

boot into safe mode.this is done by hitting the F8 key repeatedly during the boot up.then control panel and users. -- mikeyshd "CHURCH SECRETARY" wrote in message news:Email removed for privacy .com...USING WINDOWS XP, WE ARE LOCKED OUT OF THE COMPUTER BECAUSE THE USER HAD A STROKE AND CANNOT WRITE OR TALK. WE ARE UNABLE TO SET ANOTHER USER AND PASSWORD BECAUSE WHEN THE COMPUTER BOOTS UP IT STOPS AT THE SCREEN LISTING THE USER AND WANTS A PASSWORD WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE. HELP!

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:20:45 +0000, CHURCH SECRETARY wrote:USING WINDOWS XP, WE ARE LOCKED OUT OF THE COMPUTER BECAUSE THE USER HAD A STROKE AND CANNOT WRITE OR TALK.  WE ARE UNABLE TO SET ANOTHER USER AND PASSWORD BECAUSE WHEN THE COMPUTER BOOTS UP IT STOPS AT THE SCREEN LISTING THE USER AND WANTS A PASSWORD WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE.  HELP!Ouch! Please don't yell at us. We can hear you if you type normally,in mixed case.Try just pressing enter, thereby entering a blank password. There's afair chance that it will work.Ken Blake