M y son made himself administrator

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My 12 year old got with me and and set him up as administrator on XP home, he will not give me the password
I cannot even load the restore disks. Any ideas
 
Remove the keyboard, mouse and computer power cord and hide them.
He'll give you the password soon enough!

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| My 12 year old got with me and and set him up as administrator on XP home, he will not give me the
password.
| I cannot even load the restore disks. Any ideas
 
"LORI" said in news:[email protected]:
My 12 year old got with me and and set him up as administrator on XP
home, he will not give me the password. I cannot even load the
restore disks. Any ideas
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Decide who is the parent and who is the child. Then live with it.
 
My 12 year old got with me and and set him up as administrator on XP
home, he will not give me the password.
I cannot even load the restore disks. Any ideas
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Trade him the key to his room for the password.

Then change the password and don't tell him what it is.
 
Remove the keyboard, mouse and computer power cord and hide them.
He'll give you the password soon enough!
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I should have thought of this when I spent three hours trying to audit a
friends Admin password with l0phtcrack after her evil son had done the
same. Fact of the matter was, I got fed up and her son was drunk so getting
the password was very easy.

On a serious note, to the original poster, it looks as if getting the
password back without doing a clean install is going to mean buying
software, be it some speacial password reset program. Lophtcrack might do
it, but I think it needs to be installed on the machine in order to crack
it, which I have a feeling requires administrator privilages.

Also, if you son is anything like the son of my friend who is constantly
doing this sort of thing, once you get this fixed you may need some help
keeping the system locked down. I have had my friends PC in my house for
three days after her son balls'd it all up again. Now that it's spent so
long here there's no way he's going to be screwing with it again. That's
why I'm subscribed to this group, to get ideas on how to keep it that way!!
 
Hi there:

A few suggestions:
buy the password from him
remove and hide the power cord,
cancel your internet account,
dont feed him,
dont wash his clotes,
deny him softdrinks, ice cream, pizza etc.
dont give him spending money
send him to boot camp!!

Seriously:
Log-in in safe mode and:
create a password for the owner/administrator.
restore your account to administrators group.
remove his account from administrators and add to limited users.

To change passwords, account type:
Start\Run\control userpasswords2\enter\next select a user and go to> restore
password\type password.. with same user selected go to
properties button\belonging to groups tab\in others select user group from
the drop-down window.


----------------Original Message---------------
LORI said:
My 12 year old got with me and and set him up as administrator on XP home,
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he will not give me the password.
 
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