Guest Jeff Ball Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Does anyone know how I can recover or reset the admin password in Windows XP Pro? This machine has three accounts, but the admin password is not known and I cannot do anything (like uninstall programs) without loggin in as Admin. Can anyone recommend a way iof finding out what the password is, or resetting it? I assume I need a boot CD that does this for me? Any suggestions? Thanks Jeff
Guest Nepatsfan Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: Admin password on XP, lost "Jeff Ball" <876456787570000@00000.00> wrote in message news:6hdbiqFke9fcU1@mid.individual.net... > Does anyone know how I can recover or reset the admin password in Windows XP > Pro? This machine has three accounts, but the admin password is not known > and I cannot do anything (like uninstall programs) without loggin in as > Admin. Can anyone recommend a way iof finding out what the password is, or > resetting it? I assume I need a boot CD that does this for me? Any > suggestions? > > Thanks > Jeff > > Try one of these CDs. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Ultimate Boot CD for Windows® http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm Good luck Nepatsfan
Guest Jeff Ball Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: Admin password on XP, lost "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@SBXXXIX.com> wrote in message news:#USI55fBJHA.4108@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Try one of these CDs. > > Offline NT Password & Registry Editor > http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ > > Ultimate Boot CD for Windows® > http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm > > Good luck > > Nepatsfan Great!, I will check those out when I get chance tomorrow. Thanks a lot for the quick reply. Jeff
Guest Twayne Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: Admin password on XP, lost > Does anyone know how I can recover or reset the admin password in > Windows XP Pro? This machine has three accounts, but the admin > password is not known and I cannot do anything (like uninstall > programs) without loggin in as Admin. Can anyone recommend a way iof > finding out what the password is, or resetting it? I assume I need a > boot CD that does this for me? Any suggestions? > > Thanks > Jeff Have you tried the default Admin account in Safe Mode? By default it has no password unless you added one. That is NOT the same Admin account as your own or the one you see in normal mode.
Guest Jeff Ball Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 Re: Admin password on XP, lost "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message news:e2y7ujjBJHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > > Have you tried the default Admin account in Safe Mode? By default it > has no password unless you added one. That is NOT the same Admin > account as your own or the one you see in normal mode. Thanks for that too... I will check that one out when I get in front of the system later on. Jeff
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