forgotten password

[Lori]

My mother has XP professional, set with one user
account. She has forgotten the password and cannot sign
on. A friend helped her ( the last time) to bypass the
password sign-on and gain access to the account. Does
anybody know how to do this?

[Jupiter Jones]

Lori;
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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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
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"Lori" > wrote in message
...
> My mother has XP professional, set with one user
> account. She has forgotten the password and cannot sign
> on. A friend helped her ( the last time) to bypass the
> password sign-on and gain access to the account. Does
> anybody know how to do this?