administrator password

[herbzee]

Trying to do a Win XP Pro repair, get as far as the prompt for the
Administrator Password. I don't have one; I'm the sole user of this
computer. What now?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Trying to do a Win XP Pro repair, get as far as the prompt for the
Administrator Password. I don't have one; I'm the sole user of this
computer. What now?

Tried blank?
What about hacking it?

Hack your password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Trying to do a Win XP Pro repair, get as far as the prompt for the
Administrator Password. I don't have one; I'm the sole user of this
computer. What now?

The password being requested is that of the built-in
_Administrator_ account, not the password for any other administrative
user accounts that the computer's owner may have created. Unless the
owner deliberately set the Administrator's password via the Management
Console (_not_ the Control Panel), it's probably still blank. WinXP
Pro asks the installer to set the Administrator's password during
installation, but WinXP Home doesn't.



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[herbzee]

The password being requested is that of the built-in
_Administrator_ account, not the password for any other administrative
user accounts that the computer's owner may have created. Unless the
owner deliberately set the Administrator's password via the Management
Console (_not_ the Control Panel), it's probably still blank. WinXP
Pro asks the installer to set the Administrator's password during
installation, but WinXP Home doesn't.

Bruce, thanx for the reply, I tried the "blank" by just pressing enter,
is sent bach a wrong password message.
Basically I'm trying to enter the recovery console, per Fran Langa's
XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command".
cheers-Herb.

 

[herbzee]

The password being requested is that of the built-in
_Administrator_ account, not the password for any other administrative
user accounts that the computer's owner may have created. Unless the
owner deliberately set the Administrator's password via the Management
Console (_not_ the Control Panel), it's probably still blank. WinXP
Pro asks the installer to set the Administrator's password during
installation, but WinXP Home doesn't.

Bruce, thanx for the reply, I tried the "blank" by just pressing enter,
it sent bach a wrong password message. The hacking link seemed extremely
complicated to me; I'm not that far advanced.
Basically I'm trying to enter the recovery console, per Fran Langa's
XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command".
cheers-Herb.

 

[herbzee]

The password being requested is that of the built-in
_Administrator_ account, not the password for any other administrative
user accounts that the computer's owner may have created. Unless the
owner deliberately set the Administrator's password via the Management
Console (_not_ the Control Panel), it's probably still blank. WinXP
Pro asks the installer to set the Administrator's password during
installation, but WinXP Home doesn't.

Bruce, thanx for the reply, I tried the "blank" by just pressing enter,
it sent bach a wrong password message. The hacking link by Shenan
Stanley seemed extremely complicated to me; I'm not that far advanced.
Basically I'm trying to enter the recovery console, per Fran Langa's
XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command".
cheers-Herb.

 

[MAP]

Bruce, thanx for the reply, I tried the "blank" by just pressing
enter, it sent bach a wrong password message. The hacking link by
Shenan Stanley seemed extremely complicated to me; I'm not that far
advanced. Basically I'm trying to enter the recovery console, per
Fran Langa's XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command".
cheers-Herb.

The recovery console needs the pasword for the person who installed XP, not
for just any administrator. If the install was done by a major PC maker,
you may need to contact them for it.

However, the password is sometimes blank. So, try just pressing enter when
you are asked for a password, it may help.

Or, if you can get into XP, even safe mode, you can arrange to bypass the
password by the following registry change:

Instead, just run REGEDIT (Start à Run à Regedit)

Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Setup\Recover
yConsole
Set the DWORD SecurityLevel value to 1



http://www.theeldergeek.com/recovery_console.htm

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Bruce, thanx for the reply, I tried the "blank" by just pressing enter,
is sent bach a wrong password message.
Basically I'm trying to enter the recovery console, per Fran Langa's
XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command".
cheers-Herb.

Well, I've no way of knowing what your Adminstrator password is, but
Linux-based password cracking utilities abound on the Internet, freely
available to anyone who can use Google.

However, I'm rather curious about what you're trying to do. In my
experience, it's always best to very carefully read Frnk Langa, and then
do pretty much the exact opposite of anythiong he recommends. You'll be
far safer, that way. The man is a "journalist" of sorts, but he's
completely lacking in any sort of technical ability; a lot of his advice
is outright harmful. In this case, you'd be relatively safe, as there
is no such thing as a "rebuild" command in WinXP, so nothing bad could
happen.


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