By-passing or Removing Passwords

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Your so called PAL hates your guts and is refusing to hand over the passwords. But as you know this person so well all you are required to do is Kidnap them string them up and torture the Passwords out of them.

Of course using the Toshiba supplied Recovery Disc and rebuilding the system to new isn't an option here is it?

You can fix this problem by buying lots of beer and sitting down at the desk with a pen and paper and start of with "a". and then resite through all the possibilities until you get it. Good Luck,

I have another much more easy painless way to get it but i really dont know your intentions and dont like helping people with malicious purposes.

Sorry if your intent is to purely try to access your laptop

that you are a consultant and that you have been involved with computers since 1996, and also that you have been involved with TR since 2001.

Then surely you know better than to ask openly on TR for ways to bypass PW's. As a consultant, you should have run into this issue before and know how to deal with it. And of course, I am sure you know what Google is.

One of these possibilities would provide you with a reasonable chance of finding the passwords, whereas the other would have you posting on TR with a badly written sob story that has neither sufficient believability nor adequate amounts of pathos.

You could always reinstall the entire system, but then you wouldn't get access to these non-accessable accounts and programs!! ;)