Re: Administrator abuse
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:22:40 -0800
Demmpa wrote:
Taylor King wrote:
I let a friend of my wife's on my administrator account on my
computer. Her and I never did really get along much, and one day when
I was at work, she setup her own account and made mine a limited
account. She went back to her home in Antlers Oklahoma and I can't
get her number to get her password off of her. Is there any way at
all that I can fix this problem? I have an Inspiron 1000 notebook
with Windows XP. Please respond with haste.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
While NTpasswd is great, if you have an XP Home machine you may not need
to use it. In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by
repeatedly tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will
get you to the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse
will not work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden
Administrator account. The default password is a blank.
In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen,
do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in
"Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up
Windows.
If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or
have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the
built-in Administrator account's password to a blank.
However, if your wife's friend was so untrustworthy I think I'd back up
the data, wipe the machine and clean-install Windows. Who knows what
else she did? Be sure your machine really belongs to you and not her.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows -
What you will need on-hand
Malke
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