xp problem

[Guest]

dear sir/madam
my younger cousin played around with the computer adminstrator account and
he has now forgot what he changed it to i am very frustrated with him! the
laptop was included with windows xp sp1 OEM i did not get a cd disk. is
there any way of reseting the adminstrator account.
please note there is not a floppy drive as my laptop do not included one.

can any one give me much needed advice.it will be most appricated.

thankyou
jamie

 

[Ron Sommer]

Did you try booting to Safe Mode?

 

[Malke]

dear sir/madam
my younger cousin played around with the computer adminstrator account
and he has now forgot what he changed it to i am very frustrated with
him! the
laptop was included with windows xp sp1 OEM i did not get a cd disk.
is there any way of reseting the adminstrator account.
please note there is not a floppy drive as my laptop do not included
one.

can any one give me much needed advice.it will be most appricated.

thankyou
jamie

Boot into Safe Mode and log onto the normally hidden Administrator
account. The default password is a blank. Once in, go to the User
Accounts applet in Control Panel and change passwords to something you
will remember.

Otherwise, you can make a bootable cd with the NTpasswd program, which
will allow you to change the Administrator account to a blank.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Malke