Password Change required???

Question

I installed VS2011 Beta and at REstart the Logon read "Your password has expired..."

Some background info:

1.Laptop is  used from local Computer store.

2. "USER" was the only user on system.

3. I renamed "USER" to "gvoelcker".

4. I was using SysInternals Autologon to logon.

Some info:

1. At Restart the "gvoelcker" was th logon name with the pasword **** out and  the change New password and Confirm password were blank. I changed the new pword and con pword.  then I got "Configuration information could not be read from the domain controller, either because the machine is unavailable or access has been denied."

2. I know all my passords (little ring bound notebook I have had for 15 years).

3. Searched for the "Configuration infor....." text for hours with no luck regarding my situation.

4. Tried "net user administrator myPassword"  command successful.

5. net user enter shows "Administrator" and "Guest"

6. Any way to get by the "gvoelcker" logon screen??

7. Also tried "System Repair" and "System Restore"

Hope this makes sence!

All this started with the install of VS 2011 Beta

Thanks for any info

Answer 1

Hi gbvjr,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

From your description, it seems that there are something wrong with your user account “gvoelcker”. So if you think you know all your passwords. Please press F8 when launching OS and try to logon to your Administrator User Account in safe mode. Then please try to change your password by:

Control Panel>> All Control Panel Items>> Administrative Tools>>Computer Management>>Local Users and Groups>>Users

Additionally, maybe you should add administrator privilege to your user account. I guess it has been removed due to some unknown reason.

Best regards,

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Barry Wang [MSFT]
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