Forgotten Password

[Guest]

I have XP professional at home and forgotten my password which is also my
admin password....The computer came loaded with XP already. No recovery disk
or XP disk came with the computer...How do i bypass this to gain access to my
computer?

 

[Malke]

I have XP professional at home and forgotten my password which is also
my admin password....The computer came loaded with XP already. No
recovery disk or XP disk came with the computer...How do i bypass this
to gain access to my computer?

At the Welcome Screen, do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows
logon box. Type in "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned
when you set up Windows.

If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password and don't
remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the built-in
Administrator account's password to a blank.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords
that you will remember and make other desired changes.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Consider me slightly computer illiterate is there a way to recover in
Layman's terms?

 

[Malke]

Consider me slightly computer illiterate is there a way to recover in
Layman's terms?
passwords that you will remember and make other desired changes.

Errmm... I don't know how to say this any more simply:
Start the computer and when you get the Welcome Screen (assuming that
you don't have the classic logon box already), press the three keys
Ctrl-Alt-Del in a rolling motion twice. This will bring up the classic
logon box. Type in Administrator and the password. Obviously if you
already have the classic logon box you only need to type in
Administrator and the password.

If you are really using the built-in Administrator account and not just
another account with administrative privileges (for which you've
forgotten the password) then you'll need to use the Linux program
NTpasswd to change the Administrator password to a blank.

If you didn't follow this - and I really mean no disrespect and I don't
want to hurt your feelings - take the machine to a professional
computer repair person (not your local version of BigStoreUSA). It will
take less than 5 minutes for the pro to get into your Administrator
account. In order to use NTpasswd, you'd need to be able to download
it, burn the .iso to cd, possibly change your computer to boot from the
optical drive, and boot/use NTpasswd. This is actually a very easy
process, but... well.

Malke

 

[anno_triangle]

Hi,

Active@ Password Changer is a tool to use if a windows password is lost
or forgotten. It will quickly reset it
http://www.password-changer.com/