I ran into this thread after trying to over come the same issue as the original poster.
Off topic some but it is regarding this system and how to get it running top notch...
I purchased Sunday September 4, 2011
The system I bought for $110 was $150 at one time or so the sign said.
It included the computer model number: rp57P/E6400e/80hn/1.0L/7rk US
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12703_div/12703_div.HTML
a 15" ViewSonic VE155b monitor
a standard PS/2 HP keyboard and PS/2 HP optical mouse
and two power cords.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz
Memory: 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
HDD: 80GB Western Digital Caviar
ODD: none installed
OS: Windows XP (I believe it had Vista Business Basic before Borders put there image on)
I installed Win7 Home Premium 32-bit the system would not run an assessment (WEI) test without rebooting. I kept getting error messages stating the the windows vista drivers failed and have recovered. I was pretty sad at this.
Do not be fooled by the PCI Express x16 looking slot. It is an ADD2 slot only which is only for adding a second monitor I believe. There is however a PCIe x1 slot that is available.
I went to newegg.com yesterday and ordered a graphics card and a 1GB stick of memory to give it dual channel capability which arrived today(29 hours later). I had two DVD drives in another computer so I pulled one out and put into this one.
Graphics Card: ZOTAC ION-GPU-A-E ION Graphics Processor 512MB DDR3 PCI Express x1 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready
link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500164&Tpk=ION-GPU-A-E%20ION
Cost: $59.99
Memory: Crucial 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Desktop Memory Model CT12864AA667
link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146571&Tpk=CT12864AA667
Cost: $14.99
The CPU temps idle at 34C & 28C and while playing minecraft they were at 42C & 46C all settings high. The GPU temps are a little high at idle 47C & while playing minecraft were 59C at 55-70 FPS.
I know minecraft may not be the most resource intensive game but it does take more than most integrated GPU's can handle. The Zotac ION GPU handles it extremely well, very much recommend as your choices are very limited due to the low-profile PCIe x1 slot.
For those of you that use the Windows Experience Index score as a rating...
Processor: 5.4
Memory: 5.4
Graphics: 4.8
Gaming Graphics: 5.7
Primary Hard Disk: 5.4
Great scores in my opinion.
This machine was purchased as a fifth computer for the kids to mainly play Minecraft but also Club Penguin, Pirates Of The Caribbean online, Lego Universe, etc.
I have only played for an hour or so on it but I am thrilled over the purchase. In total about $200. More than I wanted to spend at first but the GPU and memory were a must have to make this run Win7.
Also if anyone knows a way to overclock this CPU with this motherboard please let us know. Reviews from 2007 show the E6400 easily overclocked at 2.93GHz stable on a stock cooler.
Wow that went into it more than I was intending. As I said before I am extremly happy with my purchases and will be heading to Borders this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in hopes of getting one more machine for home and one for work because they have me using
a 2.3 GHz P4 768MB memory and a 40GB HDD. Sorry more rambling.
Just a side note regarding the original question of this thread....
Boot into safemode with command prompt. Regedit. Search in current user for "C:\Netkey\native\NkSecureShell.exe" which is something like currentuser/Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Change to explorer.exe or maybe it was c:\windows\system32\explorer.exe
I had to do it twice before it saved for some reason. The only thing I was able to do was view KioskUser files and folders. Nothing there. I ran ophcrack and was only able to pull passwords for KioskUser Password: KUNGFUH
Helpassistant Password: QBRCD4M
The NT hashes were bordersadmin 59568229245a79a57fa876891b2aea1e
and
bgiadmin 8d45f116d53b38c75c426dc834fe8288
but there were no LM hashes stored in SAM file. My guess is there has never been an admin logged into the system to store the hashes.
I did connect drive to a Win7 machine but there is nothing of interest on the drive. It seems it was just a GUI type for their network database.
You can run another boot utility to remove passwords as mentioned above but why not reinstall and start fresh.
I wish all of you well in your Borders computer adventures.
let us know you experiences with these machines