Windows Steadystate

[Briandp]

I have made a bad move. First of all I sent my question to the wrong place
so I am resending it. Second I downloaded Windows Steadystate tonight. It
then started acting up. I had to restart the computer and when I did a
message came up that there was an error with SteadyState when the computer
started up. I then went into Control Panel to uninstall it and it advised
that the Disk Protection in SteadyState was active and I needed to trun it
off. I did that and then it said it had to restart the computer and I click
yes. When it got back to the start up screen up pops three icons. Two were
adminstartive icon and the third was my normal icon. I have not had a
password icon on this computer for three to four years. Now I am locked out
of the computer because I do not remember a three year old password. These
password icons have not been there for three years. CAn any one give me a
work around so I can get pass these passwords. I am running Windows XP Pro
with SP3.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I have made a bad move. First of all I sent my question to the wrong
place so I am resending it. Second I downloaded Windows Steadystate
tonight. It then started acting up. I had to restart the computer
and when I did a message came up that there was an error with
SteadyState when the computer started up. I then went into Control
Panel to uninstall it and it advised that the Disk Protection in
SteadyState was active and I needed to trun it off. I did that and
then it said it had to restart the computer and I click yes. When it
got back to the start up screen up pops three icons. Two were
adminstartive icon and the third was my normal icon.

I have no idea what that means.

I have not had
a password icon on this computer for three to four years.

Do you mean the Welcome Screen is showing up?

Now I am
locked out of the computer because I do not remember a three year old
password. These password icons have not been there for three years.
CAn any one give me a work around so I can get pass these passwords.
I am running Windows XP Pro with SP3.

Is the administrator account showing up? If not, try hitting ctrl+alt+del
twice, to bring up the normal login screen. Try administrator with a blank
password or whatever else you can guess it might be. If you can't get in at
all, blank out the password using one of the various boot disk tools, and
get in as administrator, and remove the passwords from the other accounts.

See
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm
and/or
http://securityadmin.info/db/faqresults.asp?keyword=password&SType=AnyWord&CATID=Optional
and/or
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm