forgotten password on xp
 

my son has forgoten his adminastrator password in the a way around it thank you :dunce:
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please please please i dont want to wipe the hard drive

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Is there no other account on that machine with admin privileges?

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afraid not and now my other kids are snookers all the music pics and all

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If your file system is FAT32 then boot from a floppy and delete the sam file, I think it lives in c:\windows\system32\config\ This will make the admin password blank. But you will also have to recreate all users.

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its ntfs

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What about the main/ hidden admin account? Anyone know the password to that?

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hidden ?? sorry what hidden

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You don't have to wipe it and start again, so don't worry about that.
If there are other non admin accounts on that machine, try this program: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lcp.html

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i'm on my pc now its the kids one in the bedroom they have changed the password and i cant get in anything there isnt even a guest setting

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When you first install XP a hidden admin account is created just in case people manage to knacker their normal admin account up ;)

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would the recovery disk do it without loseing all the files

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Any use?

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admini...r_password.htm

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Try CTRL+ALT+DEL at the login screen to get to the normal login screen, type in Administrator as user name and if a password was used for it you would have to put it in, if you didn't install XP then sometimes the password is nothing so try leaving the password blank.

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:banghead:

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Is there a query attached to this post?
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Oops I forgot to mention that you have to reboot into safe mode to get into the admin account
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=321305

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i'll let you know how i go on it is currently installing new o.s whilst backing up the files into a folder i'll keep my fingers crossed if it dont work my kids will have learned a lesson about passwords but thanks for the advice ( the rugrats have changed every thing this time i'll do myself as admin

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Best not to allow them access to an admin account at all to be honest. Too much damage can be done if you allow minors access to the administration accounts.
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When it's installed again and accounts are setup you can always
go to start menu,
select run and type
control userpasswords2
press enter
use the dialogue box to click on the user account, select properties and then change the account to a power user in the group membership tab. Will restrict them a bit but might save you reloading windows on a regular basis.

Re: forgotten password on xp
 

Oooh, if only you'd had a winboot cd or bart pe disk. You could've poped that in, booted of it and used the utility that resets all xp password. Has saved many customers at work from having to do anything like a reinstall and takes all of 5 minutes. http://www.ubcd4win.com/ everyone should make a copy.

Re: forgotten password on xp
 

:clap: sorted all the files are now in a folder called my old disk structure i am admin and the kids can only use basic geust setting thanks all