The Saturday
In short Sali ( A Bulgarian gipsy immigrant ), ringed and woke me
up in the morning.I had my ordinary things in the morning exercises
prayers etc. Then had a breakfast in the kitchen. We went for a
shopping with Ado. I bought some basic stuff we needed. It was
rainy the whole day. Although the rain I took my umbrella and took
the road to Sali's lodging place. I should say he and all his
family was quite hospitable, which is quite normal for a muslim
family. Muslims try to be good. The reason for my visit there was
the fact that, few things were required to be done on Sali's
recently bought laptop. The required things was install Bulgarian
and English language pack and change the current windows to
Bulgarian instead of the terrible Dutch (Ugh! Yaikes!), and setup
the wireless. I setup the wireless but it seemed that the wireless
wasn't distributing Internet for some reason. After a bit of fight
and tries to download language packs from Internet using an open
wireless network which was accessible every occasionally. I told
them that if they want me to fix the things with the language packs
I have to take the laptop home. So I took it home. It took me whole
day to configure this hellish Vista. It seems the User Privileges
Editor ain't working so I had to edit manually the users, through
cmd line. I tried to follow a tutorial in youtube, and most
probably I did it wrong but in the end I ended locked out of the
system! ARGHH, Then I was ANGRY. I had to research how to reset the
windows password. So at the end I followed a tutorial online which
suggested the usage of the "Trinity Linux Rescue Kit CD". I
downloaded the CD booted and did the following in order to reset
the password of the users and activate some of them. Here is how I
did it
1. # Boot Trinity RescueCD Kit
2. Mount the target ntfs partition where windows is occcupied, let's say
cd /mnt/sdax/windows/Windows/System32/config
3. list all available accounts on the windows system
chntpw -l SAM
4. Change or edit users passwords
chnpw -u USERNAME SAM (substitute USERNAME with your desired username)
... Then read and follow your choice according to the options
5. Unmount the ntfs mounted partition and reboot
The CD is equipped with a winpass cmd which is supposed to easify the pwd reset or change procedure but unfortunately
this didn't worked for me for some reason
If all wents well like with me you should be able to login now to
your Windows Vista machine! Hooray! I should thank God for this day
and for helping me solve the problem! Glory be to the Father and
The Son and the Holy Spirit! Now an in Every Ages to Come ! Amen !
Right now I'm listening to an orthodox radio I often enjoy. Check
it out
Here! I'll go to
bed in a minute now.