forgotten password on xp

marky · 01-07-2005, 10:36

my son has forgoten his adminastrator password in the a way around it thank you

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please please please i dont want to wipe the hard drive

Jon M · 01-07-2005, 10:38

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

marky · 01-07-2005, 10:40

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

gazzae · 01-07-2005, 10:42

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.

marky · 01-07-2005, 10:44

its ntfs

Paul K · 01-07-2005, 10:46

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

marky · 01-07-2005, 10:48

hidden ?? sorry what hidden

Jon M · 01-07-2005, 10:49

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

marky · 01-07-2005, 10:51

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

Paul K · 01-07-2005, 10:52

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Originally Posted by markymoan

hidden ?? sorry what hidden

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

marky · 01-07-2005, 10:53

would the recovery disk do it without loseing all the files

punky · 01-07-2005, 10:53

Any use?

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

Paul K · 01-07-2005, 10:55

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.

marky · 01-07-2005, 11:04

Paul K · 01-07-2005, 11:10

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Originally Posted by markymoan

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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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Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional in a workgroup
To log on as Administrator and reset the password, follow these steps:
1. Restart the computer. After the Power On Self Test (POST), press the F8 key.
2. On the Windows Advanced Options menu, use the ARROW keys to select Safe Mode, and then press ENTER.
3. When you are prompted to select the operating system to start, select Microsoft Windows XP edition (where edition is the edition of Windows XP that is installed), and then press ENTER.
4. On the To begin, click your user name screen, click Administrator.
5. Type the administrator password, and then press ENTER.

Note In some cases, the Administrator password may be set to a blank password. In this case, do not type a password before you press ENTER.
6. Click Yes to acknowledge that Windows is running in safe mode.
7. Click Start, and then click Control Panel (or point to Settings, and then click Control Panel).
8. Click User Accounts.
9. Click the user account whose password you want to change.
10. Click Change the Password if you want to keep a password, or click Remove password if you do not want to use a password. If you remove the password, go to step 11.
11. Type the new password for the user, and then click Change Password.
12. Quit the User Accounts tool, and then restart the computer.