Lost Password in XP Professional

[Guest]

I know someone out there has the answer. I do not remember ever entering a password when laodint XP but now I am panicking as when I boot up, I an getting a Logon Message telling me that my personal password will expire in 7 days, and askes mt yo change it. I have tried entering admin in lower and all caps and also tried password upper and lower to no avail

Any remedy??
Thank

Jbug

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Jbub

An XP Pro installation needs a password otherwise it will fail. try here:

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

Courtesy of MVP Jupiter Jones.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| I know someone out there has the answer. I do not remember ever entering
a password when laodint XP but now I am panicking as when I boot up, I an
getting a Logon Message telling me that my personal password will expire in
7 days, and askes mt yo change it. I have tried entering admin in lower and
all caps and also tried password upper and lower to no avail.
|
| Any remedy???
| Thanks
|
| Jbug

 

[Gordon]

I know someone out there has the answer. I do not remember ever entering

a password when laodint XP but now I am panicking as when I boot up, I an
getting a Logon Message telling me that my personal password will expire in
7 days, and askes mt yo change it. I have tried entering admin in lower and
all caps and also tried password upper and lower to no avail.

Any remedy???
Thanks

Jbug

In Home Edition, boot into safe mode. In pro, at the welcome screen press
Ctl-Alt-Del twice.Then in either case log on as Administrator. Leave the
password blank unless you know otherwise.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Will - I will try this tonight when I get to my home office

I really appreciate your quick response, now the test will be, me following instructions. :>

Jbu

----- Will Denny wrote: ----

Hi Jbu

An XP Pro installation needs a password otherwise it will fail. try here

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.ht

Courtesy of MVP Jupiter Jones

--

Will Denn
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/Use


| I know someone out there has the answer. I do not remember ever enterin
a password when laodint XP but now I am panicking as when I boot up, I a
getting a Logon Message telling me that my personal password will expire i
7 days, and askes mt yo change it. I have tried entering admin in lower an
all caps and also tried password upper and lower to no avail

| Any remedy??
| Thank

| Jbu

 

[Guest]

For now you can set your password to never expire until you can figure out how to change it

----- savy wrote: ----

I know someone out there has the answer. I do not remember ever entering a password when laodint XP but now I am panicking as when I boot up, I an getting a Logon Message telling me that my personal password will expire in 7 days, and askes mt yo change it. I have tried entering admin in lower and all caps and also tried password upper and lower to no avail

Any remedy??
Thank

Jbug

 

[Total Exterminator]

I know someone out there has the answer. I do not remember ever entering a password when laodint XP but now I am panicking as when I boot up, I an getting a Logon Message telling me that my personal password will expire in 7 days, and askes mt yo change it. I have tried entering admin in lower and all caps and also tried password upper and lower to no avail.

Any remedy???
Thanks

Jbug

This worked for me .... http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Questions e-mail me .... Total

 

[Alex Nichol]

I know someone out there has the answer. I do not remember ever entering a password when laodint XP but now I am panicking as when I boot up, I an getting a Logon Message telling me that my personal password will expire in 7 days, and askes mt yo change it.

This is where the reserve, emergency account called Administrator comes
in. Boot, hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black; take Safe Mode, There
will then be an icon for Administrator on the Welcome screen. (If not,
hit CTL-ALT-DEL twice and enter the explicit name
Administrator
and leave the password blank)

In that, Start - Run the line
control userpasswords2
where you can select any account name and Reset Password