What's the Password?

[LMO]

Help! I went to add a password to my login. I thought I hadn't used one
previously (I do not log in currently), but the User Accounts will not let
me change the password until I type in the current password. I do not use a
password to login. Is there anyway to find out what the system is thinking
my password is?
Thanks.

 

[John John]

If you have administrative privileges you can change the passwork
without knowing the old one. Log on with an administrator account and
use the User Accounts tools in the Control Panel or at the command
prompt you can use the NET USER command with the following syntax:

net user YourUserName Newpassword

If there are spaces in your user name you have to use quotation marks:

net user "Your User Name" NewPassword

John

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

Help! I went to add a password to my login. I thought I hadn't used one

previously (I do not log in currently), but the User Accounts will not let
me change the password until I type in the current password. I do not use a
password to login. Is there anyway to find out what the system is thinking
my password is?
Thanks.

Hi,

I presume you've tried using a blank password?

- Thee Chicago Wolf

 

[LMO]

When I log on as the administrator (there is only one account on the
computer), and am in User Accounts, it asks me for the old password and
will not let me remove or change the password without it. I don't remember
it! Is there any way to find it?

 

[John John]

Did you try it with the net user command? Other than using brute force
password cracking utilities there is no way of retrieving the password.
Depending on the length and complexity of the password it could
literally take years to crack a password with a desktop computer! It
would take Big Blue to crack a complex password! There are password
reset utilities, these reset utilities do not need to know the old
password, they just give the account a new password. If you really
cannot change the password then create a new account, in any case it is
a bad idea to run with the built-in Administrator account, you really
should run under a different account. If you really want to, or need to
reset the password you can use this:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

John

 

[M.I.5¾]

Did you try it with the net user command? Other than using brute force
password cracking utilities there is no way of retrieving the password.
Depending on the length and complexity of the password it could literally
take years to crack a password with a desktop computer! It would take Big
Blue to crack a complex password! There are password reset utilities,
these reset utilities do not need to know the old password, they just give
the account a new password. If you really cannot change the password then
create a new account, in any case it is a bad idea to run with the
built-in Administrator account, you really should run under a different
account. If you really want to, or need to reset the password you can use
this: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

An excelent utility, but only use it clear the password with XP. If you use
it to create a new password, you will find that XP won't let you in. Clear
the pasword and then set a new one in XP itself.

 

[John John]

An excelent utility, but only use it clear the password with XP. If you use
it to create a new password, you will find that XP won't let you in. Clear
the pasword and then set a new one in XP itself.

Yes, and if you have encrypted files and use the utility you can kiss
the files good-bye! If the encrypted files were life or death important
you can kiss your "derrière" good bye!

John

 

[M.I.5¾]

Yes, and if you have encrypted files and use the utility you can kiss the
files good-bye! If the encrypted files were life or death important you
can kiss your "derrière" good bye!

Correctamundo.