Hindsight is always 20-20

Wednesday after I got home from work my wife informs me that my 14 year old son had set the password on his Windows Vista Dell laptop and can no longer remember what he entered.  Apparently he set it a couple of weeks ago and quickly forgot but was afraid to tell me. 

While reading thru my feeds this weekend I came across how to Enable Vista's hidden administrator account so of course I've shared it.  I wish I had done this tip earlier which would of given me an even quicker way back into his system.

In case you are wondering I used a linux boot disk to directly access the NTFS partition and promptly blanked his password (took about 30 mins total).  I'm not going to provide links on how I did this but if you ever need this kind of help just email me.   The important thing to remember beside creating an additional account that only you know the password to is that no system is safe if you have physical access to it including Vista!