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June 28th, 2009, 02:29 AM

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on my power mac g4, at the log in screen how do I reset my lost password

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June 28th, 2009, 10:03 PM

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You must boot up with your OS X install disk and go to File/Reset Password. No need to reinstall OS X so say no when it asks.

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