locked out

Hi all, This happened on my dad's Acer 5 A515 laptop. as far as I can tell - he just opened the laptop one day and was locked out of his PC with the Bitlocker screen on. He never enabled it or set up a recovery key, let alone saved the key somewhere. perhaps some rogue update behavior or...

Hi, I'm locked out of my laptop. I never use a password because I live by myself and these devices never leave the house, then I just had to try cortana. When I signed the account required by MS in order to try cortana, I thought I was just signing up to a MS account online and had no idea it...

Every time I try to log in to my computer, I am given the error 'We can't sign in to your account' and am sent to a temporary profile which obviously means I cannot access my files or create new ones. The computer recently asked me to enter new account details on my profile so I added my work...

Thanks in advance for your time. I have been unsuccessfully trying to backdoor back into my domain controller (Win Server 2008 R2), but maybe there's a utility or solution I haven't tried yet. Both mine and my backup admin's domain admin accounts are locked out (with no timeout, as this is a...

I refer to the attachment below here. The image displayed is so my Windows Update. It makes no update. Thus has it locked up, and I find no way to make some updates in Windows Update. Nor do I know what I can do to rectify the deadlock. Someone who can afford?

I have never had different accounts on my computer nor a password: I switch on and go. Somehow my little daughter has managed to change something so she appears as Admin and we cannot get in without a password. She says she does not know what she has done (but at least she managed to guess...

New, don't even have the emails entered. Forgot password and with Win8 unable to go anywhere to fix it. It tells me to go and change password but cannot bring up any screens. Help

I tried that video and most of it worked all the way up until right before you actually reset the password to clear. I never got that screen and I think I'm Locked out of the Sam security now. What do I do?

Okay so I am the administrator on an asus laptop, and i have my password when i start up the computor and randomly the password has stopped working. I will enter it, my screen will say WELCOME and then say wrong password. I dont understand whats going on, its all numbers so Caps isnt an issue...

Okay so I am the administrator on an asus laptop, and i have my password when i start up the computor and randomly the password has stopped working. I will enter it, my screen will say WELCOME and then say wrong password. I dont understand whats going on, its all numbers so Caps isnt an issue...

I just received a new laptop with Windows 7, I log in my username and password, I get the message my password is invaliad. I attempted password recovery and get the same message. Now I am locked out of my system. Any suggestions other than reformating the harddrive?:(

Hello all. I have an HP TX2508ca convertable tablet laptop. I've had it for nine months and it runs on Vista Home Premium 32bit. Just yesterday I removed the keys and cleaned out the keyboard. After fixing the keys back everything was working perfectly. However, this morning things started to...

Unable to do Anything The Admin account is no longer an Administrator While setting up a computer for a lab, I have become completely unable to change anything requiring an administrator password. I loaded the computer on a domain called "students" and I am logged on using the local account...