Help sone tried to rest password

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Hi,
What can I do when my son reset the password on his computer and then it
crashed. After reseting the computer no one can log on. We don't know what
the password is now. Any help would be approeciated. It has XP home on it.

Thanks,
Scott
 
Hi Scott,

Boot tapping the F8 key as the BIOS information goes by. At the
Windows Advanced Options menu select Safe Mode. On the welcome screen
select Administrator. This is the hidden Administrator account and
assuming a password was never assigned to it click enter. From there
go to Start - Run and type
control userpasswords2
then you can select any user account and Reset Passwords.
 
And failing that try

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

Regards

Widey


Bert Kinney said:
Hi Scott,

Boot tapping the F8 key as the BIOS information goes by. At the
Windows Advanced Options menu select Safe Mode. On the welcome screen
select Administrator. This is the hidden Administrator account and
assuming a password was never assigned to it click enter. From there
go to Start - Run and type
control userpasswords2
then you can select any user account and Reset Passwords.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/


what.now said:
Hi,
What can I do when my son reset the password on his
computer and then it crashed. After reseting the computer
no one can log on. We don't know what the password is
now. Any help would be approeciated. It has XP home on
it.
Thanks,
Scott
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Thanks, it worked

Bert Kinney said:
Hi Scott,

Boot tapping the F8 key as the BIOS information goes by. At the Windows
Advanced Options menu select Safe Mode. On the welcome screen select
Administrator. This is the hidden Administrator account and assuming a
password was never assigned to it click enter. From there go to Start -
Run and type
control userpasswords2
then you can select any user account and Reset Passwords.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/


what.now said:
Hi,
What can I do when my son reset the password on his
computer and then it crashed. After reseting the computer
no one can log on. We don't know what the password is
now. Any help would be approeciated. It has XP home on
it.
Thanks,
Scott
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Your welcome Scott. Thanks for the feed back.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/


what.now said:
Thanks, it worked

Hi Scott,

Boot tapping the F8 key as the BIOS information goes by.
At the Windows Advanced Options menu select Safe Mode.
On the welcome screen select Administrator. This is the
hidden Administrator account and assuming a password was
never assigned to it click enter. From there go to Start
- Run and type control userpasswords2
then you can select any user account and Reset Passwords.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/


what.now said:
Hi,
What can I do when my son reset the password on his
computer and then it crashed. After reseting the
computer no one can log on. We don't know what the
password is now. Any help would be approeciated. It
has XP home on it.
Thanks,
Scott
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