By "locked herself out" do you mean she forgot her password? There are utilities on the net that can recover passwords under certain conditions. Not all of them can recover all passwords so you may have to search around a bit to find one. Here's a Google hit list to start with: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,17291,22881,25941,26751,26758&suge xp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=password+recovery+windows+7+free&cp=32&pf=p&sclient=psy&si te=&source=hp&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=fd9f310bee2047fa or if broken: http://tinyurl.com/win7psswrd-5ff43 Don -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christy Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:17 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- locked out of computer My sister has accidentally locked herself out on her laptop. How do we unlock her please? She cannot login. She is using windows 7. thanks, christy --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------