Re: Administrators password

From: Kevin K (WMTRP205@NoSpam.com)
Date: 07/03/02 

From: "Kevin K" <WMTRP205@NoSpam.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:04:46 -0400

This can be done if you have another administrator account on your computer.
Log into it and go to Start Menu>Run and type control userpasswords2 . Click
on Administrator to select and then click reset password. 

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Kevin
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"K." <kevans@performance-s-l.com> wrote in message
news:15d7301c22299$abf0f070$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11...
> We had someone set the administrator's password on a
> Windows XP workstation, and we don't know what it is.
>
> Is there anyway of resetting the administrator's password
> without reinstalling XP??
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

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