LOST!!

[Jessica]

I have forgotten my administration password, I am totally
LOST what do I do!!???

[SeXy_Red]

if you didnt make a password recovery disk your screwed, you have to
reinstall windows
"Jessica" > wrote in message
...
> I have forgotten my administration password, I am totally
> LOST what do I do!!???

[colin]

was juus chatting to my tech about this interesting problem and he said it
can be done,just find a tech thats good and ask him to go in ms dos and to
password file and get him to crack it.
"SeXy_Red" > wrote in message
news:UwUCa.842669$Zo.185301@sccrnsc03...
> if you didnt make a password recovery disk your screwed, you have to
> reinstall windows
> "Jessica" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have forgotten my administration password, I am totally
> > LOST what do I do!!???
>
>

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Jessica;
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

Another option is to install Windows XP on another partition and take
Ownership of your data.
You could also perform another installation on the same partition,
although this is not a permanent fix and it is recommended to perform
a Clean Installation after retrieving your data.

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


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"Jessica" > wrote in message
...
> I have forgotten my administration password, I am totally
> LOST what do I do!!???

[Amethyst]

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
> Jessica;
> 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
>
> Another option is to install Windows XP on another partition and take
> Ownership of your data.
> You could also perform another installation on the same partition,
> although this is not a permanent fix and it is recommended to perform
> a Clean Installation after retrieving your data.
>
> After this is resolved, take precautions to not lose the password.

Err JJ, that's all well and good, but it's the administrator password she's
lost. She can't access the admin account. But, then again, method B will
work.

Cass

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

I know Cass.
However sometimes the poster does not mean the Administrator, they
mean an account they created with Administrator access.
In any case there is a fix to the problem one way or another.

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"Amethyst" > wrote in message
...
> Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
> > Jessica;
> > 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
> >
> > Another option is to install Windows XP on another partition and
take
> > Ownership of your data.
> > You could also perform another installation on the same partition,
> > although this is not a permanent fix and it is recommended to
perform
> > a Clean Installation after retrieving your data.
> >
> > After this is resolved, take precautions to not lose the password.
>
> Err JJ, that's all well and good, but it's the administrator
password she's
> lost. She can't access the admin account. But, then again, method B
will
> work.
>
> Cass
>
>
>
>