Adm. Password

[Guest]

The homeless shelter at our church recently allowed one of the men in the
shelter access to one of our computers. Apparently he was given the Adm
password to log in and then was nice enough to change it. He moved on before
this was discovered and now we are unable to use this pc. Is there a way
around this? I asssume reformatting the hard drive would solve this problem
but then of course a lot of stuff would be lost since we've rarely done any
type of back up. Could anyone please help? It's a 4 year old Hewlett Packard
unit running XP (As best as we can remember it's XP Home - without logging on
we're not sure)

 

[Ricky]

See if this helps..
How to log on to Windows XP if you forget your password or your password
expires
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305/en-us

 

[jopa66]

Send request to my e-mail if Ricky's post doesn't help. I will not post the
info here.

 

[Nepatsfan]

In (e-mail address removed) Big Dave
wrote:

The homeless shelter at our church recently allowed one of
the men in the shelter access to one of our computers.
Apparently he was given the Adm password to log in and then
was nice enough to change it. He moved on before this was
discovered and now we are unable to use this pc. Is there a
way around this? I asssume reformatting the hard drive would
solve this problem but then of course a lot of stuff would
be lost since we've rarely done any type of back up. Could
anyone please help? It's a 4 year old Hewlett Packard unit
running XP (As best as we can remember it's XP Home -
without logging on we're not sure)

Here are a few options you may find useful:

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

How can I reset the administrator's password if I forgot it?
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[coal_brona]

Greetings,

Lost or forgotten password can be reset using Active@ password changer
tool. It is small, easy to use, and cna quickly do the trick.

http://www.password-changer.com/