Admin Password

From: David Campbell (Zelby250@Zhotmail.Zcom)
Date: 10/17/02 

From: "David Campbell" <Zelby250@Zhotmail.Zcom>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:36:25 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>Is it possible to recover the administrator password? I'm
>working on a computer and the owner has forgotten the
>password.

You don't have too many options with this problem, but
I'll tell you what I know.

SOLUTION #1

Assuming you're running Windows XP Professional, and
another user account with administrator privledges exists
on the computer, you can use that account to reset the
administrator password. Explore:

Control Panel|User Accounts

for the screen which allows you to reset the password.

SOLUTION #2

If the administrator made a Password Reset Disk, use that
disc to revert the password to a previous, known state.

If you don't have either of the conditions for using these
solutions, I don't think there's anything you can do. You
can always use trial and error to guess the password.
It's time consuming, but it's gotta be in the admin's
brain somewhere.

EMAIL

Please delete the Z's in my email address to reply via
email.

--David

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