Re: forgot my Windows XP Password

From: Kevin Davisł (zkevindavisz_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:08:46 GMT

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:20:31 -0800, "Stephanie"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Can someone help me?
>The system prompted me to change my password since it was
>going to expire in a couple days. So I changed my password
>and I entered it twice with no problems. When I tried to
>log on the other day it wasn't accepting it. I thought
>maybe I typed it wrong but I typed it every possible way.
>Its a home system, with DSL.
>
>Can someone out there help?

This should allow you to reset your admin password:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

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What could possibly go wrong?

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