administrator Password recovery

From: Jerry Benton (jcbenton@atsugi.navy.mil)
Date: 11/22/02


From: "Jerry Benton" <jcbenton@atsugi.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:45:59 -0800


On the XP machine:

-When it boots press F8 a bunch of times until you get the
boot menu.
-Select "Safe Mode with Command Prompt"
-In the command prompt type: control
-The control panel will pop. Go into users and change the
password for the administrator.

>-----Original Message-----
>My son had a notebook and he forgot his admin passwords:
>one to access a notebook with windows 2000 professional
>and the other PC with windows XP. Any hint is appreciated
>on how to access the PCs given that we don't have a
>recovery disks. Thanks so much in advance.
>.
>



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