What a thing to wake up too, my head is spinning.
First of all to
Guest, I am not entirely sure you are being serious as we do get a few jokers at times, I have re-read your post a couple of times and you seem to be lumping two problems into the same question. I assume the first part is asking for help on the changing of a password on your laptop/PC and the other is a problem with logging into this site?
To answer the second part first:
Any new member has to have their first posts approved by a Moderator, so until that person (probably myself) sees and reads the post it will not show up, this is done to avoid spamming on the forum or someone just trying to make a one off malicious post.
I have now read and approved your initial post so it should now show up.
I assume that the "sorting temples" thing you refer too was when you tried to become a member on this site, if so then that is simply another device to eliminate spamming by web-bots that are machines that can appear human and open up fake accounts, again to perform spamming such as advertisements or even porn being posted. I do not know the actual question you will be asked as these are random, but the question will be something that only a human being can perform. So for example you may be shown four pictures, but only one of them is a fish and the others are all mammals, so you may be asked to place them into the same groups as each other which a none human could not do. This should only happen during registration.
The first part of your question about the password, I can only tell you what the normal procedures are for the various operating systems and you need to make a judgement by what you see on your PC screens as to which instruction to follow. Things may vary from one operating system to another so you may have a slightly different way of accessing certain icons or processes, but the basic instructions will (or should) work. I suspect that when you were being prompted for the Floppy/USB it was because Windows was trying to create a backup disc in case you forgot your password, that may or may not have worked, I have no way of knowing that. It does seem like you have messed up somewhere with this and maybe entered a password that you don’t recall or intended to use, i.e. miss-spelled in some way.
This can be a problem, but you could try the following to try and remove that password and type a new one instead, by following the steps here:
Restart your PC, and hold the F8 keyboard button and as you enter the Windows Boot Menu (when it starts up) you will see some different choices.
Look for the one that says “Safe Mode with Networking” and using your ‘up/down arrow’ keys move onto that choice and select it.
Windows should now run in “Safe Mode”
.
Select the default Administrator account from the login and either leave the password
Blank at first as hopefully it will not have a password set, or failing that try enetering your OLD password.
If you are lucky and you get passed the login, then you should be able to edit your original account.
I would suggest that if you are not comfortable in doing any of this to ask someone more familiar with IT to help.
Finally it is worth remembering that you do not have to set a password on any PC just leave the space blank if you do not want one. It often happens that the old password is still active if the procedure to change it has failed, so always try the old one or even just click next without typing anything into the box.
Hopefully you solve your dilemma.
EDIT: If none of the above works then I suggest that you
do not do anything that may erase data from the USB drive that you have plugged into your PC as it may just contain the backup to your password and someone more familiar with IT may be able to use it to get you out of trouble if you take both USB stick & PC to them. You could always try booting in SAFE MODE as described and re-setting your PC to an earlier "Restore Point" this
may help if your OLD password still works, but remember that any data or software changes made after the "Restore Point" will be lost.
What a thing to wake up too, my head is spinning.
First of all to [b]Guest[/b], I am not entirely sure you are being serious as we do get a few jokers at times, I have re-read your post a couple of times and you seem to be lumping two problems into the same question. I assume the first part is asking for help on the changing of a password on your laptop/PC and the other is a problem with logging into this site?
[u]To answer the second part first:[/u]
Any new member has to have their first posts approved by a Moderator, so until that person (probably myself) sees and reads the post it will not show up, this is done to avoid spamming on the forum or someone just trying to make a one off malicious post.
I have now read and approved your initial post so it should now show up. :up
I assume that the "sorting temples" thing you refer too was when you tried to become a member on this site, if so then that is simply another device to eliminate spamming by web-bots that are machines that can appear human and open up fake accounts, again to perform spamming such as advertisements or even porn being posted. I do not know the actual question you will be asked as these are random, but the question will be something that only a human being can perform. So for example you may be shown four pictures, but only one of them is a fish and the others are all mammals, so you may be asked to place them into the same groups as each other which a none human could not do. This should only happen during registration.
[u]The first part of your question about the password[/u], I can only tell you what the normal procedures are for the various operating systems and you need to make a judgement by what you see on your PC screens as to which instruction to follow. Things may vary from one operating system to another so you may have a slightly different way of accessing certain icons or processes, but the basic instructions will (or should) work. I suspect that when you were being prompted for the Floppy/USB it was because Windows was trying to create a backup disc in case you forgot your password, that may or may not have worked, I have no way of knowing that. It does seem like you have messed up somewhere with this and maybe entered a password that you don’t recall or intended to use, i.e. miss-spelled in some way.
This can be a problem, but you could try the following to try and remove that password and type a new one instead, by following the steps here:
Restart your PC, and hold the F8 keyboard button and as you enter the Windows Boot Menu (when it starts up) you will see some different choices.
Look for the one that says “Safe Mode with Networking” and using your ‘up/down arrow’ keys move onto that choice and select it.
Windows should now run in “Safe Mode”
.
Select the default Administrator account from the login and either leave the password
Blank at first as hopefully it will not have a password set, or failing that try enetering your OLD password.
If you are lucky and you get passed the login, then you should be able to edit your original account.
I would suggest that if you are not comfortable in doing any of this to ask someone more familiar with IT to help.
Finally it is worth remembering that you do not have to set a password on any PC just leave the space blank if you do not want one. It often happens that the old password is still active if the procedure to change it has failed, so always try the old one or even just click next without typing anything into the box.
Hopefully you solve your dilemma.
EDIT: If none of the above works then I suggest that you [u]do not [/u]do anything that may erase data from the USB drive that you have plugged into your PC as it may just contain the backup to your password and someone more familiar with IT may be able to use it to get you out of trouble if you take both USB stick & PC to them. You could always try booting in SAFE MODE as described and re-setting your PC to an earlier "Restore Point" this [u]may[/u] help if your OLD password still works, but remember that any data or software changes made after the "Restore Point" will be lost.