This script will give you access to regedit.

I repaired student PCs pro bono. In the course of preparing a machine, I configured secure passwords. A week later, she’s in my office telling me she needs her password again. How should I know  what he friggin password was- that was like a week ago? thought i was sunk, but my google-fu found this:

Forgot your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista admin password?

This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista etc system.

1. You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
2. It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD or another system.
3. Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
4. There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing.

Download Here. (~3MB) (md5sum: 33ecd38263f935b82e7b2e3e9f5de563)

XP/VISTA Password & Registry Boot Disk (72)

How to create the LIVE USB;

To make a bootable USB drive / key:

1. Copy all files from this CD onto the USB drive. It cannot be in a subdirectory on the drive. You do not need delete files already on the drive.
2. 2. Install the bootloader (you may have to be administrator).
3. On the USB drive, there should now be a file “syslinux.exe”. Run this from a command line, like this:

j:\syslinux.exe -ma j:

replace j with some other letter if your USB drive is on a drive letter other than (J:). On some drives, you may have to omit the -ma option if you get an error. If it says nothing, it probably did install the bootloader.

Please note that you may have to adjust settings in your computers BIOS
setup to boot from USB.  Also, some BIOS (often older machines) simply won’t boot from USB anyway.

I’ve stored the files here because I don’t know if this site will be up forever. please give them some hits when you can.

using excel use =Now()+X where X is the number of days in the future you need.
Or go visit time and date (dot) com. (new window)

1. DST CD ISO: Down load this zipped image. unzip it and burn it to a CD.DSTCD (141)
2. USB DST EXE: This file will create a USB bootable drive, download it and run it with a USB Key in a spare USB socket, Please note not all Laptops can boot from USB key Please check before hand. usb biosreset (113)

Change BIOS on D600

1.    Power on laptop
2.    Begin tapping the F2 key once the dell logo shows. This will bring up the BIOS. If you see this message “Configure Set up is disabled” – go to step 2.a
3.    There are 7 Pages of BIOS. You navigate these pages by tapping the ALT key (located on either side of the spacebar) in combination with the ‘P’ key.
4.    Go to PAGE 2. This lists the boot order. Active bootable devices are marked with a blue, triangular indicator.
•    The UP or DOWN arrow keys move the cursor to a new device on the list.
•    Press “U” or “D” to move a device up or down in the boot order
•    Use the space bar to enable or disable a device in the boot order
5.    Move the “Onboard NIC” device to the top position in the list and enable it with the SPACEBAR.
6.    Go to PAGE 3. Find the option labeled “PXE BIS Policy”. Change this option to “ACCEPT“with the LEFT /RIGHT arrow keys.
7.    Go to PAGE 6. Find the “WAKE ON LAN” option. Using the LEFT /RIGHT arrow keys change this option to Enabled.
8.    Tap ESC, save the changes and power off the PC. It is now ready to go.

2. A The boot order is locked so you can’t make any changes.
1.    The attached script will reset your bios password and service tags.  Unzip the file and burn the resulting ISO to a CD using your favorite CD burning software.
2.    Power on the PC and tap F12, this will take you to the boot options screen. Chose to boot from “CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive”.
3.    Put the CD into the drive and tap ENTER
4.    If your CDROM is NOT set to the first position in the boot order, you’re going to need to remove the HD. It’s only a single screw. Remove the screw and the hard drive sled will slide out of the computer.
5.    Power cycle the computer and repeat step 2-4.

Issue at Hand:

When I go to the “Wireless Network Connection 2” Properties, and click on the “Advanced” tab, then click on Windows Firewall “Settings” button, I get a message that says:

“Windows Firewall settings cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running. Do you want to start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service?” I click “Yes.” Then I get a message that “Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Services (ICS) service.” I tried doing the Network Setup Wizard, and everything appears fine then.

Try This:

1. Go to run and type services.msc. 
2. Scroll down to ‘Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)’. now double-click it. a window should pop up with different tabs. it should say it’s startup type= automatic and service type=started.
3. Look under the dependencies tab for the dependent services and make sure they’re started as well. also, under the recovery tab, change the failure options to ‘restart the service’
4. Then, Start > Run > CMD / NETSH FIREWALL RESET

Good to go