I bought this machinate from a garage sale got it home and found its password protected and the lady that sold it to me said she doesn't know it. cause it was left by an old roommate who recently passed.
emachine is a computer brand.
The owners of those are often peoples who have rather limited computer knowlege.
It's probably running Windows XP or Vista.
You have 3 choices:
1 - Bring it to a computer shop, they may be wiling to reset the password. it will cost you some.
2 - Reinstall Windows. You may be able to do a factory reset.
3 - Try to guess the password. If you are lucky, it could be rather trivial if he chosed a bad one...
Try those notorious bad passwords: 12345, qwerty, azerty, 123456, 1234567, 12345678, 123456789, password.
Do a Google search for "bad password", "most common passwords" or "worst passwords" and try those.
If the previous owner had a nic name, try to find it and try it. Same for a pet name, girl friend's name, favorite sport club,... You can have the owner's family name? Try it, especialy if the login name looks like it may be a first name.
Ask the lady, she may be able to give you those informations.
Electro
March 2012
Whats an emachine, whats a machinate.
Laptop pc, password protected, depends on operating system as to how to get rid. Post more details
SD
March 2012
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