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Malke
darius said:Hello
Trying to fix a friend's WinXP laptop after he forgot his password (he
kept using hibernate so he was never asked for the password, until he
had
to reboot by which time he'd forgotten it). I'm able to get into the
repair console by booting from the CD and I can log as administrator.
Is there a cmd line tool I can use to reset the password in the repair
console?
(At the GUI log on screen, there's no "Administrator" user, just
"default", so I can't log in as Administratpr there.)
I don't believe you can reset the password with the Recovery Console.
However, unless your friend has XP Pro, if you boot into Safe Mode the
hidden Administrator account will now be available. If he never set a
password, the default password is a blank. Then you can go into Control
Panel, User Accounts and change your friend's password. If he has XP
Pro or for some reason this doesn't work (like he set a password for
the default Administrator account and doesn't remember it), then you
can easily change the password with the program ntpasswd from:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Read the howto first, of course. The best thing is to set the new
password to be blank.
Malke