Unless a Password Reset Disk was made beforehand, all you
can do is see if the following will help:
Lost, Forgotten, or Expired Passwords:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm
[Courtesy of MS-MVP Jupiter Jones]
Windows XP Key is a program to reset Windows XP security
if Administrator password, secure boot password or key disk is lost.
http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm
--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
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| Any idea which file contains all the passwords of users? In Windows NT
| 4 it was SAM but haven't got a clue if it is still the same. I need to
| replace this file with the one which contains the passwords (especially
| the administrator's/power user's) so that I could do some admin task on
| a machine which no one seems to be able to login.
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| I am trying to avoid reformatting of the hard disk and reinstalling XP.
| I can use BartPE (can be googled) which allows me to manipulate the
| files on NTFS system.
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| Thanks for any help from MVPs.
