XP Admin Password

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Hello,

I have lost the admin password to my machine (local account) is there a way
to recover it without a recovery floppy or cd? thx.

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msnews.microsoft.com said:
I have lost the admin password to my machine (local account) is there a way
to recover it without a recovery floppy or cd? thx.
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Hopefully you just mean the day to day account you use with Admin
rights. If so, this is where the hidden account *called*
'Administrator' comes in. Boot, hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black
to get the Menu and take Safe Mode. That should then at 'Welcome'
include an icon for 'Administrator'; if not hit CTL-ALT-DEL twice to get
a logon dialog, enter the explicit name
Administrator
and assume that password is null, so Enter immediately. From that,
Start - Run and run
control userpasswords2
and you can select any user account and Reset Password
 
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