Re: Lost password

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/10/05 

Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 22:06:17 -0400

For XP Pro, press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice at the welcome screen. You'll get the old Windows 2000 sytle logon. Enter Administrator and try leaving the password blank.

For XP Home, you must boot the computer into Safe Mode. Press the F8 key between the BIOS Post screen and XP actually starting to load. The Administrator account will appear on the Welcome Screen. 

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Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"5hulses" <5hulses@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0C42FD38-6A28-416C-A9F5-A03A1F4C525B@microsoft.com...
> Someone gave me a computer with XP that requires a password to be entered, 
> but they don't know the password.  Computer administrator is not on the 
> welcome screen...how can I get in without knowing the password?

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