Re: Lost Administrator Login Password

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:12:40 -0500

Fred wrote:
> I have lost or forgotten the password to sign in as the
> administrator. When Windows XP starts a screen comes up
> for the administrator to login with their password. I
> have forgotten my password.
> Some times ago I remember that a friend had this problem
> and we went into the registry and deleted the password
> and he was then able to get into his PC.
> Could someone please tell me how to delete the password
> in the registry or some other way to solve this problem.
> Thanks for your kind assistance.

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

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

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