Re: forgotten Administrator Password

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 03/17/04


Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:58:03 -0600

Lost, Forgotten, or Expired Passwords:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Jupiter Jones]

Windows XP Key is a program to reset Windows XP security
if Administrator password, secure boot password or key disk is lost.
http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm

Microsoft's Policy Regarding Missing or Invalid Passwords
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;189126

-- 
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart!  Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
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"fjmonly" <fjmonly@hotmail.com> wrote in message:
 news:efa001c40c21$18f24080$a101280a@phx.gbl...
|I have somehow managed to forget the exact spelling of my 
| computer's adminstrator's account.  I know what the 
| password hint it, so I have a basic idea of what the pass 
| would be but no matter what I try, using caps, spaces, 
| different arrangements (the password hints are our 3 
| birthday months) nothing seems to work.  I seen somewhere 
| how to bypass this and set up another account (and loosing 
| some excrypted stuff or something in the process) but I 
| can't seem to find that either.  I am at this point 
| willing to loose whatever I need to loose in order to make 
| an administrator password that I can actually remember and 
| access the account


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