WindowsXP Home Logon Problem

[SKIP HOWARD]

My Deputy Director was working on his computer at the office, rebooted his
computer, when the screen came up to login for user and password, it would
not except it, nor would it except mine. The computer is networked with
mine. I can still see his computer, folder and files and I can access them
without a problem. Problem being, we can not log back on to his computer
with his username and password. Is there a file on his computer that has the
username and password? If so what is the name and what program do I need to
read it? Is there a way for me to get in the computer and change the
username and password? Or, what do I need to do here?
Thank You

 

[Bruce Chambers]

My Deputy Director was working on his computer at the office, rebooted his
computer, when the screen came up to login for user and password, it would
not except it, nor would it except mine. The computer is networked with
mine. I can still see his computer, folder and files and I can access them
without a problem. Problem being, we can not log back on to his computer
with his username and password. Is there a file on his computer that has the
username and password? If so what is the name and what program do I need to
read it? Is there a way for me to get in the computer and change the
username and password? Or, what do I need to do here?
Thank You

Simply log in using the built-in Administrator account (which
cannot be deleted) and modify the desired account(s) and use Start > Run

"control userpasswords2" to modify the desired account(s). By

design, the only way to log into the Administrator account of WinXP Home
is to reboot into Safe Mode. For WinXP Pro, pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL twice
at the Welcome Screen will produce the standard login dialog box.


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Bruce Chambers

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[Mike Fields]

Simply log in using the built-in Administrator account (which
cannot be deleted) and modify the desired account(s) and use Start >
Run
design, the only way to log into the Administrator account of WinXP
Home is to reboot into Safe Mode. For WinXP Pro, pressing
CTRL+ALT+DEL twice at the Welcome Screen will produce the standard
login dialog box.

Bruce Chambers

If you are using the EFS (Encrypted File System) for any encrypting
of files, be aware that unless you are very careful, changing the
user passwords by the admin will break the key for efs for
the user you changed the password for. If you are NOT using
efs, then you should be OK.

mikey