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A windows vista pops during I logged in asking for my password? (I'm using XP SP3)? Help?
Well, it's hard to explain but I installed Spybot and Nod32 and then when I restart my computer, a Windows Vista Box popped out asking for my username and password. I don't have a password, so I pressed ok with just the username.
But here it goes again, asking the password. I know I put the right password because when I tried to put a different password, it says the password is wrong. I'm using XP.
I had already experience this same problem before when my friend installed AVG, and I fixed that when I restart and boot into safe mode and restored in the System Restore to uninstall AVG. I did that for now, but the Windows Vista popped out again. That didn't happen before since I fixed the last problem using Safe Mode.
So what should I do now? And for the important files in there? I'm afraid to reformat it because: the files might get lost and I will encounter the video card and sound card problem again (like the time I reformat the pc.)
I'm using another pc right now, by the way.
I'm using XP.
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
What do you actually use ????
Windows Vista or XP (there's no such thing as XP SP3 afterall, its fake)
- 5 years ago
you don't have to remove it, just overwrite it, use the vista setup disk and when you are asked at which partition you want to load vista, just select the partition that currently houses xp, it's always a good idea to try to delete as much as possible from the o/s you are scrapping before doing this. bear in mind, when you are done there will be nothing on the partition other than the raw vista install, so if you have files on that same partition, back them up first, or they will be lost, although why anyone would choose vista over xp is beyond my comprehension!!!...hope this helped. good luck. UPDATE: contrary to what the noobs think, xp is not a dying o/s, it is the greatest o/s in computer history and extended support plus the possibility of a new service pack will be in existance untill 2014...long after the super turkey and noobies fave ''vista'' has died a slow and painful death!!!!!!!!! it really says something about the intellect of people who need ''the latest thing''...2 years from now these very same champions of vista will be saying ''vista is garbage!...get windows 7''
