Cannot login

[Alan T]

My daughter's XP was running good no need to login (although it has a user
account called Alan, because that's my old computer), but the PC is
automatically login.
She started to play MSN chat on Sunday and Monday (3 to 4 days ago),
suddenly when she turned on the PC, the login screen popped up and asking
password. The user name is me, ie Alan.
I tried to use many my old password but no luck, I am sure I had tried all
my possible password.

Any idea why the login screen suddenly pops up?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My daughter's XP was running good no need to login (although it has a user
account called Alan, because that's my old computer), but the PC is
automatically login.
She started to play MSN chat on Sunday and Monday (3 to 4 days ago),
suddenly when she turned on the PC, the login screen popped up and asking
password. The user name is me, ie Alan.
I tried to use many my old password but no luck, I am sure I had tried all
my possible password.

Any idea why the login screen suddenly pops up?

Try this:
1. Boot into Safe Mode, by pressing F8 early during the boot phase.
2. Log in as "Administrator". If you have never changed the admin's
password then it would be blank.
3. Control Panel / User Accounts.
4. Change your the password for Alan and keep a written record
of it, for perfectly obvious reasons.
5. Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
6. Type this command:
control userpasswords2{Enter}
7. Click "Alan"
8. Untick the box that requires users to enter a password.
9. Click OK and type the password for "Alan" when prompted.
10. Boot back into normal mode.

Windows will now log you on automatically under the "Alan" account.

 

[Alan T]

Hi,

Thanks for your info.
I also tried Administrator in the all possible password but failed in the
normal mode.
Is there any differences in using Administrator account in normal mode and
safe mode?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Passwords are the same in all modes.

Since you do not appear to remember any of your account
passwords, you must boot up the machine with a floppy boot
disk from the site below and use it to reset the administrator's
password to a blank.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

My daughter's XP was running good no need to login (although it has a user
account called Alan, because that's my old computer), but the PC is
automatically login.
She started to play MSN chat on Sunday and Monday (3 to 4 days ago),
suddenly when she turned on the PC, the login screen popped up and asking
password. The user name is me, ie Alan.
I tried to use many my old password but no luck, I am sure I had tried all
my possible password.

Any idea why the login screen suddenly pops up?

Did you try leaving the password blank?

 

[Alan T]

Yes, I tried to leave the password box blank and hit enter. But no luck.