Re: Locked out of XP professional

From: Ram (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/06/04


Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:16:30 -0700

Thanks, ., I used following to reset administrators
password & it worked. I am back in business !!!!.

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

 

>-----Original Message-----
>ram wrote:
>
>> Today I switched my laptop computer from 'Domain'
>> to "workgroup' , running XP Professional for
>> the first time in a year. It all came up fine but I
>> realize that of the one user account & administrator
that
>> are on the computer, I cannot remember ANY of the
>> passwords. So I effectively cannot use the computer.
I
>> tried calling MSFT as well as my company administrator
>> and neither could help me.
>>
>> In short, I do not remember [ neither my company
>> administrator !!] the local user account password or
>> administrator password. How do I access my user
account
>> without needing re-load OS & application programs ?
>Hi
>
>
>You might try to reset the local Administrator password
>with one of the methods mentioned here:
>
>http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password
>
>http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
>
>--
>torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn
Norway
>Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version
of
>the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.msp
x
>.
>



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