Administrator password reset

[Elton, Ilona & Justin Wright]

Hi,

A year or so ago, I gave a notebook to an employee of mine, but had access
to
certain utilities on the computer restricted, by setting up an
administrator.

The notebook is no longer required, however I can't remember the password
that
I used as administrator. Is there any easy way of getting around this?

Thanks,

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Is there another account with admin level priviledges? If so, use that to
reset it. Otherwise, see this link:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_passwords.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Alex Nichol]

A year or so ago, I gave a notebook to an employee of mine, but had access
to
certain utilities on the computer restricted, by setting up an
administrator.

The notebook is no longer required, however I can't remember the password
that
I used as administrator. Is there any easy way of getting around this?

Hopefully this was a user account with admin status. If so, this is
where the hidden account called 'Administrator' comes in. Boot, hitting
F8 as BIOS info goes to black to get the Menu and take Safe Mode. That
should then at 'Welcome' include an icon for 'Administrator'; if not hit
CTL-ALT-DEL twice to get a logon dialog, enter the explicit name
Administrator
and assume that password is null, so Enter immediately. From that,
Start - Run and run
control userpasswords2
and you can select any user account and Reset Password