Logon password changed or not accepted

[Guest]

My wife's XP Home PC will not allow her to log-on. Says that ther password is
in-correct when she did not change it. How/ what can we do to get in?

 

[Guest]

If your wife is an administrator and you're using the Welcome sceeen to
logon, here's what you can do.

Restart your computer. While it is booting, begin pressing F8 rapidly. A
screen will come up asking you what you want to do. Select Safe Mode with
Networking, and select Windows XP Home as the operating system you would like
to boot up with. When you get to the Welcome screen, there will be an account
called "Administrator." It will probably have a picture of a chess piece for
its picture. If you haven't messed with this account and set a password for
it in the future, click it and it will log you on as Administrator. You can
make any system-wide change you want, including changing or removing
passwords, but only those of administrators. For some reason, Windows only
recognizes user accounts with the power level of Administrator in Safe Mode.

If your wife is not an administrator, whoever is your computer's
administrator should logon and remove her password. She can create a new one
later.

If you do use the Safe Mode method, however, you would be better off leaving
the Administrator account without a password, just in case you forget your
password and you're the admin.

Hope this works, or at least helps.

Good luck!

_glitch_

 

[Guest]

Can anyone please help me. I don't know how this happened, but I'm guessing
my Son changed some things so he could hack in to go to sites I don't allow
him to. Now, he has no user acct. and I am no longer the administrator. I
tried to reboot in safe mode and the "computer administrator sign never came
up for me to try getting me back as it..

 

[HeeroYuy]

Can anyone please help me. I don't know how this happened, but I'm
guessing
my Son changed some things so he could hack in to go to sites I don't
allow
him to. Now, he has no user acct. and I am no longer the administrator. I
tried to reboot in safe mode and the "computer administrator sign never
came
up for me to try getting me back as it..

Did you password protect the built in Administrator account? It's possible
he used safe mode, logged in as Administrator and changed the settings to
how he pleased.

Someone may have an easier fix, but I'll present my idea. I would reformat
just to start clean in case something else got messed up. Starting clean is
usually best. When following the instructions, where it asks to set the
administrator password, make it a strong password (more than 8 characters,
and a combination of caps and small case, numbers, and random characters
like $ or &). You basically want to make it very hard to remember, even for
you. Then, when you get to the desktop for the first time immediately go
Start > Run and in the box type lusrmgr.msc. Then, double click on the Users
folder. Find the administrator account and double click on it. Check the box
that says "Account is disabled" and click ok. Then, as an added security,
right-click on the account and select Rename, and change the name to
something not resembling "Administrator." Also, you may want to password
protect your account with the same strength password (but completely
different) or stronger.

 

[Guest]

I've read this post and would like to know how I can get rid of the
Administrator password. I thought I was password protecting just one file.
Turns out it was the whole thing. Now I have to log on to Administrator
window with a password. I want to get back to desktop to log on and not mess
with administrator password. I have tried the control userpasswords2 and it
does not work. Help