Re: Locked out of windows! HELP!

From: Galen (galennews_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/29/05


Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:22:07 -0400

In news:115B6AEB-F350-44C3-A91E-49650A0E1213@microsoft.com,
Reshal <Reshal@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

 My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I am the only administrator on my computer for the user accounts on my
> computer. I changed my user account password today and now I can't
> get in! The other user accounts are not able to access the
> administrator options to change my password again because they aren't
> "administrators". How do I get in? Thanks!

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

That says it's for NT but works for XP as well.

Galen

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