factory settings windows vista how?!?! HELP!

[Unbilotitled]

I want to master reset my windows vista back to factory settings but i have no idea how.

Well i do, im on acer but i dont remeber the password i had when i first brought it. so i need the password to master reset.

How can i do this??

do i need my product vista code, and torrent vista, put onto disc and install it again with that keY??

what do i do?!?! +rep

or how can i install a version of windows XP that is cracked?

etc??

thanks.

[Blob]

Grab a USB stick.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

have fun.

[Ostinato]

I dno if this is a silly recommendation, but when I had this problem I just pressed F11 on startup and it opened windows restore or something allowing me to choose a partial one or a full one back to factory settings.

[The Professor]

Wow that seems like the long way round. If you've just fogot the pasword to the account, boot up in safe mode and use the administrator account to change the password. I know this works in XP, I'm not vista savvy but as far as I know that hasn't changed.

[Wolverhampton]

Grab a USB stick.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

have fun.

used that a couple of weeks ago, doesn't work.

[Stefy09]

With my computer I had to burn some recovery disks to do it :P

[Stephen!]

Wow that seems like the long way round. If you've just fogot the pasword to the account, boot up in safe mode and use the administrator account to change the password. I know this works in XP, I'm not vista savvy but as far as I know that hasn't changed.

Vista doesn't have a master admin account as such.

[Recursion]

Vista doesn't have a master admin account as such.

It does, it's just disabled.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/

[mk]

if you have an acer laptop.. when its turned on try pressing alt + F10
then u will need to set up a password... when you have done that press it again and you will have a number of options.. restore to factory default will be one of them

hope this helped