WinXP logon screen

[Guest]

I just recently ran a program called Evidence Eliminator on my desktop and
when it finished running its task, I was told to restart the system. When the
WinXP logon screen appeared it asked me for an ue\sername and password ,of
which , I never used prior to running Evidence Eliminator. Is there any way
to reset the password at logon eventhough I did not have one before? I tried
re-installing WinXP but again I was asked for the username and password.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Has Evidence Eliminator got an 'undo'option? If so, try that.

 

[Guest]

Will, the problem is that I can not even get pass the logon screen to try
that out. Any other suggestions?

 

[Craters]

You should be able to enter in your username to log in, if you never
assigned it a password, don't enter one, leave it blank.

 

[Guest]

Here's a link to a self-extracting floppy image. It's set to
automatically format the floppy. This is a bootable disk, so you have to
boot your computer with it. Basically, if you follow the directions it gives
you you should have no problem. Its not entirely accurate when writing
passwords on Windows XP Pro sometimes (didn't work on 1 out of 6 machines),
so I recommend just choosing to blank the password then change it later from
the Administrator account while in Windows. When it loads it says it's only
been tested on Windows XP Home/Pro up to SP1, but I recently used it on SP2
(both versions) and it only would work when you chose to blank out the
password. That's okay because once you blank the password, you can go in and
change it by logging in as Administrator. Also, USB keyboards are not
supported; you must use a PS/2 keyboard (converter won't work either.

When it asks about SCSI drivers, just press <Enter>. You can accept all
defaults. After you choose which account to change, be sure to read the "**"
lines as they will tell you whether or not it will be able to change the
password at all. When you change the password, be sure to answer "y"
(default is "n"). Be sure to save when you are done; otherwise, all the
changes you made will be lost (defaults are all "n", answer "y")!

If it works, it works. 99% of the time, it works.

NT Password Changer: http://www.altenhofel.com/ntpasswd.exe

If you have any questions, let me know!

 

[Guest]

Thanks, this sounds like it will work. I will reply back after I give it a try.

 

[Guest]

Bootable disk would not work, but I did find another solution on Microsoft's
Knoweledge Base using the "type setupact.log" command through MS DOS.
However, does anyoe know how to prevent the scree from automatically
scrolling to the end when invoking this command because as part of the fix, I
need to read all the information contained on the screen when inorder to
correct my password issue.