My solution

From: Amy (syscoor_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/25/03 

Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 16:57:53 -0700

I'm just following up here on this problem. I never did
find out what the cause was, but I could not logon to XP
with any combination of passwords. I wasn't able to logon
by pressing "control alt delete" and using the
Administrator account that way either. I never
passworded any of my accounts so I don't know where it
came from. I tried everything I could think of, even
NTAccess special demo to see if there was a password on
the Guest account. There was not. What I finally had to
do, even though everyone in any kind of a support capcity
told me that I would just have to reformat and lose all
my information, I installed Windows2000 on my laptop and
accessed my files that way, copying them off to CD & then
reformatted it, restoring it back to the way it was when
I bought it. Just an FYI in case anyone else you hear of
runs into same problem that I had.

Thanks, Amy

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