Re: please help with my login passord

From: Maurice Loucel (mloucel@usa.com)
Date: 01/21/03 

From: "Maurice Loucel" <mloucel@usa.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:10:31 -0800

Sure thing you can try this nice utility, but, from experience.. be careful.
If you have never played with fire, you have no idea it burns...

"Bob Cerelli" <bob@onecomputerguy.com> wrote in message
news:u$etahQwCHA.2916@TK2MSFTNGP09...
> You do not need to reinstall if you forgot the admin password.
>
> There is a boot disk you can download at:
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
>
> that will let you reset the password of any account on NT4, Windows2000 or
> XP.
>
> Just follow all the default settings which are for the admin account. Used
> it many
> times with great success.
>
> I also made a bootable CD image you can download from
> http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software/ntpassword.iso
>
> --
> Bob Cerelli
> http://www.onecomputerguy.com/
>
> "Maurice Loucel" <mloucel@usa.com> wrote in message
> news:OxAn0bQwCHA.1676@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> > Not so easy my good friend, if like I think you have NTFS, you are in
> > troubles, I would re-install windows and reset the password.
> > Now if by any chance you did not install a password for the
administrator,
> > try going to windows in safe mode you will see the Administrator account
> > showing up, if you like me left that with a simple password, I sometimes
> use
> > 1234, or blank, you can reset your own password from there.
> > Good luck
> > Maurice.
> > "Drew" <am8247@albany.edu> wrote in message
> > news:02de01c2c0fe$0a76a8d0$d7f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA14...
> > > I just got back from my college winter break and a month
> > > and a half off I seem to have forgotten my login password
> > > for my windows xp professional edition. Can someone
> > > please let me know if there is any other way to log in
> > > without my password???
> >
> >
>
>

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