Re: XP Password

From: peter (peter@my.monarch.net)
Date: 08/05/02 

From: "peter" <peter@my.monarch.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:29:05 -0600

Recovering a user's password
If you forget your user account password, check your password hint. (Your
password hint is located on the Welcome screen beside the password prompt.)

If you have a password reset disk, you can use it to create a new password
for your account. Your personalized computer settings will be retained. For
more information about using the Forgotten Password Wizard to create a
password reset disk, click Related Topics.

If your password hint does not help you remember your password and you did
not create a password reset disk, you will need to have someone with a
computer administrator account create a new password for you. For security
reasons, a computer administrator cannot recover your password if you forget
it; he or she can only create a new one for you.

 Notes

  a.. A user with a computer administrator account can create and change
passwords, and create password hints for all users. Users with limited
accounts can only create and change their own passwords, and create their
own password hints.
  b.. If a user with a computer administrator account changes the password
for another user, that user will lose all personal certificates, and stored
passwords for Web sites or network resources.
  c.. peter
"Don" <dpitts@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:093f01c23bba$69898050$2ae2c90a@phx.gbl...
| Our home computer has XP installed. the system prompted
| my wife to enter a new password which she did but now it
| will not take either the old or the new password. We are
| certain that we have the password correct and have tried
| all possible variations (eg. - caps, spaces, etc. to no
| avail.)
|
| Is there a way to work around this. I am not that
| familiar with XP.
|
| Any help will be greatly appreciated.
|
| Thanks, Don 

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