Re: bypassing the log on to windows

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:20:46 -0500

anonymous wrote:
> I have been out of touch with my notebook and forgot what
> user name and password to use to get to my desktop. I was
> told that by going to support.microsoft.com would be of
> some help by putting in the search window (password), that
> would prompt me to download a exe file to download onto my
> floppy from my home pc, then insert the floppy to the
> notebook then turn the unit back on and the startup would
> bypass the log on and enable me to put in a different
> password. Help!

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
> No, one cannot bypass a password request.
>
> Lost, Forgotten, or Expired Passwords:
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

You have a few other options as well..

Hack your password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Another:
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html

Now - what you may have been thinking of is this:

How to create and use a password reset disk for a computer that is not a
domain member in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305478

Of course, you would have had to create that diskette AHEAD of time. 

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