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How to Remove Password When Waking Mac Up? How to Remove Password When Booting Mac Up? You must use the "burn a CD from a Disk Image" (or some option like that) that uses the Image file (ISO file) as input and burns a multi-file bootable CD. You will need to take the ISO file and use CD burner software to burn a CD. Sometimes these utilities have issues with different flavors of windows re-encrypting a new password so it's best to just blank it out. Then you can boot into windows and safely login with no password and change it to whatever you like.

One recommendation: If you do use it, just use * as the new password. I've used it on Windows 2000 machines, Windows XP machines, Windows 2000 Server machine. You just select the windows password reset option, select the defaults for file locations, and then select the user and the password to change. I downloaded EBCD ( It's an ISO that basically has a Linux flavor on it but it boots straight into an easy-to-use menu. Thanks Again XpcMan I'm a Freelance IT and this tip saved a clients mac as well as a satisfied client. While there are a number of ways to skin a cat (Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard) Rescue your files to your preferred media. Your Mac is now an external HDD/DVD/CD device that can be connected to another Mac. You will see a firewire symbol on the screen. Get Info (command + I) of the selected Folder/FileĬhange ownership/permissions (at the bottom of the properties window) (you can then take ownership of a folder and its contents if needed, unless encrypted, corrupted etc.) (Optional) Delete the newly created account.įor the user folder that contains the files you want. Logout then Login to the changed account. Select the user account you wish to reset password or change account permissions. Mac account, etc.) but create a new username for this new account then Previously existing accounts will be untouched.Īll existing user accounts will be there. It will prompt you for all your info again (owner registration. It will boot like the day you bought your mac or newly installed. This creates a brand NEW Computer Administrator user account. Successful on intel MacBook OS X.4 and intel MacBook Pro OS X.5 (also a G4 according to another post)