Hi,
I just thought I'll share this with everyone to make people aware of how easy it is to get stuck and unable to log onto your PC in Windows 8. I sort of forgot over the weekend what my password was and couldn't log on last night. After changing my password in haste on Friday as instructed by Microsoft as they said my account was maybe hacked or compromised. I spent the better past of last nite and most of this morning trying to log onto my laptop. It was easy enough to change my forgotten password on the Microsoft Account on another PC but the laptop I used it on kept asking for the password that I last used on it on Friday. To make a long story short, I tried everything. From burning a a ophcrack cd to trying to log onto command prompt during start up. Anyway after numerous attempts it was as simple as plugging in a lan cable for the laptop to connect to the internet without logging on and my laptop's password was changed automaticly from Microsoft. One wonders how you suppose to enter the Bios as the Boot Manager came up on pressing F12; I then only had 3 options to boot up. CD/DVD Rom and then 2 ip network lines. After it detected ophcrack, I think it assumed its a Trojan virus maybe and then there was no option to boot up on cd/dvd rom. To enter command prompt I still had to supply the old Microsoft Account password which I didn't have so thus could not enter command prompt. So at start-up when the log on screen appears the laptop also didn't connect wirelessly that is why the old password remained in place.
I wonder if there's other people that have maybe experienced the same problem; and isn't it maybe better to revert to windows 7 or can Microsoft log-on be disabled. Anyway the biggest concern was having to reinstall which luckily in the end I didn't have to do. But I'm just wondering why Microsoft have to make everything so complicated.
I just thought I'll share this with everyone to make people aware of how easy it is to get stuck and unable to log onto your PC in Windows 8. I sort of forgot over the weekend what my password was and couldn't log on last night. After changing my password in haste on Friday as instructed by Microsoft as they said my account was maybe hacked or compromised. I spent the better past of last nite and most of this morning trying to log onto my laptop. It was easy enough to change my forgotten password on the Microsoft Account on another PC but the laptop I used it on kept asking for the password that I last used on it on Friday. To make a long story short, I tried everything. From burning a a ophcrack cd to trying to log onto command prompt during start up. Anyway after numerous attempts it was as simple as plugging in a lan cable for the laptop to connect to the internet without logging on and my laptop's password was changed automaticly from Microsoft. One wonders how you suppose to enter the Bios as the Boot Manager came up on pressing F12; I then only had 3 options to boot up. CD/DVD Rom and then 2 ip network lines. After it detected ophcrack, I think it assumed its a Trojan virus maybe and then there was no option to boot up on cd/dvd rom. To enter command prompt I still had to supply the old Microsoft Account password which I didn't have so thus could not enter command prompt. So at start-up when the log on screen appears the laptop also didn't connect wirelessly that is why the old password remained in place.
I wonder if there's other people that have maybe experienced the same problem; and isn't it maybe better to revert to windows 7 or can Microsoft log-on be disabled. Anyway the biggest concern was having to reinstall which luckily in the end I didn't have to do. But I'm just wondering why Microsoft have to make everything so complicated.
