Vista Login Problem


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Ok so I recently burned Vista Beta 1 on a DVD and proceeded to install it in my secondary harddisk....

Installation seems to run smoothly; however, when I go to login the only accounts it gives me is the Administrator and Guest accounts.

It never gave me a chance to set the administrator password, nor make my own account...

So I cannot login! Does anyone know the default administrator password for Vista? Or has anyone had this problem before and know how to fix it?

Thanks in advance!!

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By default the admin account on my install didn't have a password...are you sure you can't just press enter and it'll log in? Or does it ask for a password? Bear in mind, even though no password was set, mine still showed a password box.

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Yes...it just shows the password box, but u can login directly....Also during the installation it didnt ask for the password for the admin (A very bad thing to done by MS) !!!

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Yes...it just shows the password box, but u can login directly....Also during the installation it didnt ask for the password for the admin (A very bad thing to done by MS) !!!

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its just a beta :sleep:

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Reformatted, reinstalled, always the same problem... install works perfectly but when it leads me to the login screen, i can't log... Administrator or Guest even with no passwords entered, it says :

Windows Security

The Specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted

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Ok so I recently burned Vista Beta 1 on a DVD and proceeded to install it in my secondary harddisk....

Installation seems to run smoothly; however, when I go to login the only accounts it gives me is the Administrator and Guest accounts.

It never gave me a chance to set the administrator password, nor make my own account...

So I cannot login! Does anyone know the default administrator password for Vista? Or has anyone had this problem before and know how to fix it?

Thanks in advance!!

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<sarcasm> WOW, so many Neowinians accepted in the beta testing of WinVi. </sarcasm> :whistle:
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Well, considering this is mainly a windows enthuasist site, I would expect a disproportinate ammount of beta testers and engineers here. I believe there was a thread not too long ago asking who worked where. I couldn't help but notice the large number of network and sysadmins, programmers and developers. Alot of these people, (myself included) have or have access to an MSDN subscription. And the beta was avaiable to anyone with an MSDN subscription.

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Ok, i reinstalled with my internet unplugged and it worked perfectly. Maybe my Nforce 2 motherboard corrupted the install (which lasted way longer than my previous try)...

Hope it will help you too ;)

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