I lost my password

[Ged roe]

i changed my administrater password, and i forgot it.
i know the word but forgot the three digits on the end,
(it might have been two digits) can i regain access to my
administrater account without going through all possible
combinations, any help wuold be appreciated
ged

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You need to either remember the password or sign on to an account with Admin
priviledges and reset it. Unless you created a password reset disk
beforehand, if so now is the time to use it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Ged roe" > wrote in message
...
> i changed my administrater password, and i forgot it.
> i know the word but forgot the three digits on the end,
> (it might have been two digits) can i regain access to my
> administrater account without going through all possible
> combinations, any help wuold be appreciated
> ged

[steve.uk]

try starting in safe mode and logging onto the 'administrator' account.

from there you can change the password.


"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> You need to either remember the password or sign on to an account with
Admin
> priviledges and reset it. Unless you created a password reset disk
> beforehand, if so now is the time to use it.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Ged roe" > wrote in message
> ...
> > i changed my administrater password, and i forgot it.
> > i know the word but forgot the three digits on the end,
> > (it might have been two digits) can i regain access to my
> > administrater account without going through all possible
> > combinations, any help wuold be appreciated
> > ged
>

[Jupiter Jones]

Ged;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;321305
Or
Reboot to Safe Mode, select Administrator, leave password blank.
Then go to User Accounts in Control Panel.
Select the user and change the password.
If you are using Windows XP Pro and have encrypted data, you may
permanently lose access to the encrypted data.

Here are other options:
http://www.wininternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/index.asp
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=265&affid=wxpnews

After this is resolved, take precautions to not lose the password.

--
Jupiter Jones
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"Ged roe" > wrote in message
...
> i changed my administrater password, and i forgot it.
> i know the word but forgot the three digits on the end,
> (it might have been two digits) can i regain access to my
> administrater account without going through all possible
> combinations, any help wuold be appreciated
> ged