Re: Windows User Password

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:30:52 -0500

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp

"Access is Denied" Error Message When You Try to Open a Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810881&Product=winxp

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

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Jupiter Jones] 

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart!  Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
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"oldspiceis (Dave Gale)" wrote:
| This PC has two users each with their own password to 
| access windows and their programs
| My wife (bless her) can't remember how she entered her 
| password and we have not been able to get into her "my 
| documents" for almost a month.
| We desparately need a way to either by-pass the password 
| page or to find a way the PC can tell us how it was 
| written. I can still log-on under my password and can 
| access the "my documents" by opening the hard drive...but 
| we still can't open my wife's "my documents" without her 
| password. Any suggestions would be gratefully received as 
| she needs some very important files at present locked 
| within her set-up