Re: Forgot XP Administrator Password

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 01/03/03 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:58:50 -0800

Most OEM installs use a blank password. If your friend never explicitly
set a password for Administrator, then try the blank password. 

-- 
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
"Larry" <larry@abc.com> wrote in
message news:34ff01c2b28b$8a398960$8bf82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA05...
> A friend of mine bought a Dell computer and is not sure
> what he made the Administrator Password for his XP Home
> computer. I tried MMC but with Home it does not work. I
> am ready to use a hack to find it but was wondering if
> there is an easier way to reset the Admin Password in XP
> Home?

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