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Please help!!!!! xp pro forgotten administrator password

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Ladan Williams

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Jan 23, 2003, 8:32:03 PM1/23/03
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I have forgotten the administrator account password on my xp pro, and did
not make a recovery disk, hint or save it any where. Is there anyway to
logon and change the admin passowrd without reformating the harddrive.

I do have a limited user account on the pc.

Ladan


Torgeir Bakken (MVP)

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Jan 23, 2003, 9:07:33 PM1/23/03
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Ladan Williams wrote:

> I have forgotten the administrator account password on my xp pro, and did
> not make a recovery disk, hint or save it any where. Is there anyway to
> logon and change the admin passowrd without reformating the harddrive.

Hi

You might try to reset the local Administrator password with one of the methods
here:

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

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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and a ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter


Bob Cerelli

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Jan 23, 2003, 11:59:34 PM1/23/03
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There is a boot disk you can download at:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

that will let you reset the password of any account on NT4, Windows2000 or
XP.

Just follow all the default settings which are for the admin account. Used
it many
times with great success.

I also made a bootable CD image you can download from
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software/ntpassword.iso

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Bob Cerelli
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/


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