can't login after upgrade to XP

From: Darren Robertson (darren_at_orcsoftware.com)
Date: 04/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:31:45 -0700

All.

I hope that you may be able to offer advice onthe
following problem.

A user with an IBM Thinkpad T21 running Windows 2000
Professional has just upgraded to Windows XP Professional.
Now neither the user nor I as administrator can log in to
the computer locally or the domain.

I believe that the domain problem is down to the
signorseal setting in the registry and this would be easy
enough to fix once logged in but......

Is there a workaround for this problem? ie. to reset the
local administrator password in the registry file without
having Windows available?

Thanks in advance.

Darren.

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