Forgotten Password.

[KC]

Someone, PLEASE help me! I have forgotten the password to
my only Aministrator account. I cannot remember the
password at all, and I really need to get onto the
account. Is there ANYTHING I can do to get into it?

[Jupiter Jones]

KC;
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.

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"KC" > wrote in message
...
> Someone, PLEASE help me! I have forgotten the password to
> my only Aministrator account. I cannot remember the
> password at all, and I really need to get onto the
> account. Is there ANYTHING I can do to get into it?

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Jupiter Jones wrote:

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

and some free ones exists as well:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password

e.g.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBD/tip1900/rh1984.htm


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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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