forgotten password

[Jess]

Hey my son went back to college, and had himself set as
our computer administrator. He has forgotten his
password, and since the little stink made us all limited,
we can't change it. HOW do I get one of us to be an
administrator and get his name off it?

 

[Twan]

When WIndows made the Administrator accounts
they made it so that it's over all accounts.

Microsoft has a master password but if they gave
that away you can get on any body's computer.

I sorry to say but there is no help.
I can't even contact your computer manufactor
because they don't know. You can tell your
son to buy a new hardrive and Install Windows XP
again.

 

[ahw]

-----Original Message-----
Hey my son went back to college, and had himself set as
our computer administrator. He has forgotten his
password, and since the little stink made us all limited,
we can't change it. HOW do I get one of us to be an
administrator and get his name off it?

Reinstall wxp -the only solution - you don't need to buy a
new hard drive: just log on with a programme which removes
all or put an ordinary windows diskette with fdisk-command
present and try that way.

You will of course loose all your datas, but it is cheaper
than buying at new hard drive - in any rate you will loose
your datas, so why not do it in the cheapest way - you
probably have a back-up of the important data? If not -
have a good cry and good luck!