Lost Admin PW in XP home

A few weeks ago, I started getting a log on screen on my home PC. The IT
people at work told me this was due to my d/lding normal XP updates. I
bought the PC from Dell, have the original XP CD so I'm not trying to hack
into anything. I am the only one usiong the PC so I don't want/need any
PW's.

In trying to fix this (deleting the log on screen), I screwed something up.
I can't get into my regular files as I don't have he PW. The guest account
I have set up, as you know is useless

I went into the safe mode and tried changing my PW as the Adminstrator. No
joy. I thought there was a command called controlpasswords2 or something
like that but I can't access it. That's where I originally got into trouble
trying to delete my log on screen, I know I screwed something up there.

I am comfortable enough in the registry but don't know my best option there.
I have the original CD and tried a "fix/repair but could not do that.

I do not want to reformat and reinstall. I am a little nervous about using
the NT proggie talked about on another thread but I will listent to anyone's
input. My IT people at work can't help me, but thankfully they told me
there are a few security issues in XP home (I also have SP2) that there may
be a work around. Any advice would be apprecaited.

Happy Friday........
Rob


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