Locked out of WindowsXP Professional

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I have two computers at work, the one has Windows 2000
installed on it and the other has Windows XP Professional
installed on it. Last week both of the systems asked me
to install new passwords because the old passwords had run
out on both systems. I usually had two different
passwords; one for each of the systems, but to make it
easy for myself I changed the both systems to the same
password. It worked fine the first day but when I came to
work the next morning I could not get into the computer
with Windows XP Professioinal installed on it. It keeps
telling me that I have the uppercase locked on it. I do
not becasue I must use both upper and lower case along
with numeric on the systems. Is there a quick fix to this
problem, I need this system to update my financial records
for the office and they are on the system with XP.
Another thing I have a problem with is that when I try to
use a program with as the Guest User it tells me that the
program is being used with another user. I also cannot
get onto the Internet because it is telling me that I am
disabled and I have a dial up connection. Please, is
there anyone that can give me some HELP? Thanks, John
 
The first thing I would try is switch the keyboard on the
XP machine to see if it has a stuck key or is not
functioning correctly. Try a different keyboard and see
if you can log in. If you think it's a problem with the
password itself, there are a number of password utilities
available to change the password so you can log in.
Passware makes a very good product, but it costs about
$100 I think. A nice free utility that I've had good
luck with is Offline NT Password. It's a linux app that
allows you to boot to a floppy and change the
administrator password. You can find it at
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ I hope this
helps.
 
If the XP login is telling you that cap locks is turned on
then it is turned on. The shift key does function when
cap locks is on, one just shifts to get an uncapitalized
keystroke. As the other respondent advised, if you toggle
the caplock key and still have this issue, try swapping
keyboards.

I am sorry, but the other parts of the post are a little too
generic to allow a response.
 
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