Windows XP Pro

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I let an employee use my computor, which he is no longer with me, now I can
get past the front page for the account user and do not have his password
that he changed.

Can this be by passed or changed somehow ???

Thank you in advance
 
vetter said:
I let an employee use my computor, which he is no longer with me,
now I can get past the front page for the account user and do not
have his password that he changed.

Can this be by passed or changed somehow ???

Thank you in advance
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Have you tried logging in as "Administrator"?

If you are using XP Home then you need to login in "Safe Mode" (repeatedly
tap F8 straight after the machine goes throught its POST).

If you are using XP Pro press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice.

Try just taping "Enter" whan asked for a password.

If the above do not work then:-

Go to http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ . There you will find
zip files that will let you create boot floppy disks or bootable CDs
that will enable you to reset any system password on an NT class
operating system.
 
vetter said:
I let an employee use my computor, which he is no longer with me, now I
can
get past the front page for the account user and do not have his password
that he changed.

Can this be by passed or changed somehow ???

Thank you in advance
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Log on as Administrator and change the password. If you don't have that,
you can clear the passwords using password reset utilities found on a number
of Linux-based boot CDs.

Note, though - you say that this is XP Pro, and so it's possible that
encryption was invoked. Changing the password from outside the account
will in the vast majority of cases immediately cause permanent loss of the
encrypted data (the exceptions are where there is a recovery agent or the
credentials were backed up).

If you think this is even a possibility, and if the contents might be of
value to you or your business, stop, do NOT follow the above steps.

Remove the drive, clone it to another drive, set the original aside safely.
Work on the clone to determine whether there is a problem, and what you
might do to overcome it. Make no changes to the original drive until you
are certain you will not lose data.

HTH
-pk
 
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