How to Bypass a Hard Drive Password on ThinkPad

The ThinkPad line is a series of laptops produced by IBM. First introduced in 1992, the ThinkPad was one of the first mass-produced laptops on the PC market. IBM's laptop division was purchased by Lenovo in 2005, and the latter now produces the ThinkPad line. As with all consumer-market PCs, the default operating system is Windows. Windows allows for separate user accounts, all of which can have a unique password. If you wish to bypass your password, you can do so via the use of the PC's administrator account.

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  Log into the administrator account on the ThinkPad.

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  Open the "Start" menu by scrolling over the "Windows" icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen and clicking on it.

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  Click on "Run."

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  Type "control userpasswords2" (without the quotation marks) into the "Run" field.

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  Click "OK." A program menu appears.

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  Uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer."

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  Click "OK."

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  Open the "Start" menu again.

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  Click on "Log Off," which is located in the lower left-hand corner of the pop-up menu.

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  Enter the desired account by double-clicking on the name and icon of the labeled account. It will no longer have a password.