Administrator Password?

[Guest]

I am the original owner and administrator and when trying to use the repair
of Xp it asks for a password and the only one I ever entered will not work. I
have even tried to change the password and see if it worked then NO!!!

 

[Grand_Poobah]

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I am the original owner and administrator and when trying to use the repair
of Xp it asks for a password and the only one I ever entered will not work. I
have even tried to change the password and see if it worked then NO!!!

Leave the password field completely blank and press OK. This may work.
Repairing XP as an "Administrator" isn't quite the same as the
Administrator you used to actually run XP.

GP

 

[Nepatsfan]

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I am the original owner and administrator and when trying to
use the
repair of Xp it asks for a password and the only one I ever
entered
will not work. I have even tried to change the password and
see if it
worked then NO!!!

It sounds like you hit the R key too soon and ended up in the
Recovery Console.

Restart your computer and boot from the installation CD. The
first screen should have three options. The first one is "To
setup Windows XP, press ENTER". That's what you want to do so
hit Enter. After accepting the license agreement, you should be
given the opportunity to choose the XP installation you want to
repair. Here's where you hit the R key. Take a look at these
articles for more info:

Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP
How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Courtesy of Microsoft
How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315341&ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[MAP]

I am the original owner and administrator and when trying to use the
repair of Xp it asks for a password and the only one I ever entered
will not work. I have even tried to change the password and see if it
worked then NO!!!

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


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