xp password help

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Dana

I forgot my admin password, and now I cannot restart my
pc or anything. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do?
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Dana said:
I forgot my admin password, and now I cannot restart my
pc or anything. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do?
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If you can't even start the PC, it's probably a BIOS password, not an
XP Administrator password. In that case, look at your motherboard or
system documentation to find out how to reset it. (You will probably
need to open the case and connect a couple of motherboard contacts
briefly.)

If you can't find that, the only option I know of is to remove the
battery (looks something like a quarter) on the motherboard for a
couple of minutes. The drawback here is that in addition to forgetting
the password, the BIOS will forget everything else that's been entered
into it. This may or may not be a problem. Since you can't boot, you
can't get into the BIOS setup to record settings before you make it
forget them.
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You post it here, you read it here.
 
Dana said:
I forgot my admin password, and now I cannot restart my
pc or anything. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do?
Please email me at (e-mail address removed)
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Your question has already been answered. Please keep posts in *one*
thread. Remember, patience is a virtue.

Malke
 
Dana said:
I forgot my admin password, and now I cannot restart my
pc or anything. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do?
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This is where the reserve, emergency account *called* Administrator
comes in. Boot, hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black; take Safe Mode,
There will then be an icon for Administrator on the Welcome screen. (If
not, hit CTL-ALT-DEL twice and enter the explicit name
Administrator
and leave the password blank)

In that, Start - Run the line
control userpasswords2
where you can select any account name and Reset Password
 
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