How to recover my lost password?

[Guest Eric]

For XP, my password for administrator is lost. Does anyone have any

suggestion on how to recover it? so I don't need to re-format my PC.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Eric

[Guest peter]

Re: How to recover my lost password?

 

Tried Hypnosis?? memory recall ??

have you looked all over the house?? maybe its just hiding in some unused

dusty corner??

 

peter

 

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"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> For XP, my password for administrator is lost. Does anyone have any

> suggestion on how to recover it? so I don't need to re-format my PC.

> Thanks in advance for any suggestions

> Eric

[Guest Nightowl]

Re: How to recover my lost password?

 

Eric <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Sun, 24 Aug 2008:

>For XP, my password for administrator is lost. Does anyone have any

>suggestion on how to recover it? so I don't need to re-format my PC.

>Thanks in advance for any suggestions

 

 

Hi Eric

 

It depends on what exactly you mean by "administrator". Do you mean a

user account that has admin privileges, or the built-in Administrator

account?

 

If it's the first one, try logging in using the built-in Administrator

account, then you can set a new password for the other account to

replace the forgotten one.

 

If you have XP Pro: at the Welcome Screen press Ctrl-Alt-Delete twice

and a login box should pop up. Enter Administrator for user name and a

password if you had set one (by default it is blank).

 

If you have XP Home: boot to Safe Mode and you should see the

Administrator account appear as a choice on the Welcome Screen.

 

However, if the lost password was *for* the built-in Administrator

account, you will need to use a password reset utility like this one:

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

 

Hope this helps. Good luck (and don't forget to write your new password

down somewhere safe :-)

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[Guest Xandros]

Re: How to recover my lost password?

 

Download the opcrack "livecd" and create a self booting CD that will reveal

your accounts and passwords. You can then record them to enter when prompted

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

 

or you can download this file and follow the instructions to create a

bootable CD (or floppy) which will remove the admin password leaving it

blank http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/tools/ntpassword/ntpasswordhack.zip

 

Personally I like ophcrack because it doesn't make any changes to the system

but if the password is complex it may not work in which case the other app

will be necessary.

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Xandros

 

 

"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> For XP, my password for administrator is lost. Does anyone have any

> suggestion on how to recover it? so I don't need to re-format my PC.

> Thanks in advance for any suggestions

> Eric

[Guest Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Re: How to recover my lost password?

 

"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:2263F434-4E74-465D-A210-5612F19973A9@microsoft.com...

> For XP, my password for administrator is lost. Does anyone have any

> suggestion on how to recover it? so I don't need to re-format my PC.

> Thanks in advance for any suggestions

> Eric

 

Are you sure it had one?

Did you try leaving the password blank?

 

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[Guest keng]

RE: How to recover my lost password?

 

 

 

"Eric" wrote:

> For XP, my password for administrator is lost. Does anyone have any

> suggestion on how to recover it? so I don't need to re-format my PC.

> Thanks in advance for any suggestions

> Eric

[Guest ju.c]

Re: How to recover my lost password?

 

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk/CD (Freeware)

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

 

quote/

- This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has

a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista etc

system.

- You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.

- It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer

and boot off a floppydisk or CD or another system.

- Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user

accounts!

- There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities

that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things

than password editing.

/quote

 

 

ju.c

 

 

"keng" <keng@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> "Eric" wrote:

>

>> For XP, my password for administrator is lost. Does anyone have any

>> suggestion on how to recover it? so I don't need to re-format my PC.

>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions

>> Eric