I've lost the admin password

[alex]

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if someone could help me: I've received a pc with XP pro from
an employee that he's gone away- He didn't left us the user and password of
the administrator, and I've only an user and a password of an user,
therefore with the permissions of an user, and because of the very
restrictive secutity policy of the pc, pratically I can do norhing to
administer the pc.

I wouldn't want to format the pc.

I've heard that it is possible to recover the password in a file text in
"winnt" or "Sistem32", but I haven't found it.

Moreover I can't run "mmc" and "regedit32.exe" and I can't create other
users or administer them.

Could someone help me please?

Many regards

Alessandro
Milan (Italy)

 

[Malke]

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if someone could help me: I've received a pc with XP pro
from an employee that he's gone away- He didn't left us the user and
password of the administrator, and I've only an user and a password of
an user, therefore with the permissions of an user, and because of the
very restrictive secutity policy of the pc, pratically I can do
norhing to administer the pc.

I wouldn't want to format the pc.

I've heard that it is possible to recover the password in a file text
in "winnt" or "Sistem32", but I haven't found it.

Moreover I can't run "mmc" and "regedit32.exe" and I can't create
other users or administer them.

Absolutely you should reconsider your decision not to format/clean
install Windows. This is always the wisest course of action with an
inherited computer. However, if you will not do this, then get ntpasswd
from:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Change the Administrator password to a blank and then you'll be able to
enter the system and use the User Accounts applet in Control Panel as
usual. Ntpasswd is easy to use - just make sure you read the How-To.

Malke