XP Administrator Password

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The Admininistrator password on my home PC may have been set with a password
longer than that allowed during Sign On. ? Failing that the password has been
changed and has been forgotten. What options do I have to get back in as
Admininistrator (No password backup disk exists). What options do I have ? Or
am I just locked out ?
 
RiggyMike said:
The Admininistrator password on my home PC may have been set with
a password longer than that allowed during Sign On. ? Failing that
the password has been changed and has been forgotten. What options
do I have to get back in as Admininistrator (No password backup
disk exists). What options do I have ? Or am I just locked out ?
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"Longer than that allowed" would be impossible to do - it wouldn't "allow"
it.
(Plus - that's a lot of typing.)

The latter is the likely explanation. Set it and forget it. Great for
roasts, bad for passwords.

Hack your password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Another:
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html

LCP
http://www.lcpsoft.com/english/

John the Ripper
http://www.openwall.com/john/

L0phtCrack is/was popular as well - but I couldn't find the link quickly
(Symantec owns it.)

How to create and use a password reset disk for a computer that is not a
domain member in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305478
 
RiggyMike said:
The Admininistrator password on my home PC may have been set with
a password longer than that allowed during Sign On. ? Failing that
the password has been changed and has been forgotten. What options
do I have to get back in as Admininistrator (No password backup
disk exists). What options do I have ? Or am I just locked out ?
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I would really hope that there would be no way to get in.
 
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