Re: Lost Admin PW in XP home

No joy means that I could not create a new Administrator PW in the safe
mode. I got in, and thought I changed it. When I went to re log in, it
would not accept my new PW, even though the "forgot your password clue" was
updated. I changed the password to my first name and tried to type it in
every way I could but it would not accept it. On a boot, the standard
Windows logon screen comes up with the Administrator name already loaded and
another window also pops up saying "account not accessable" or something
like that. I click out of that and I get to the Users log on where I
thought I changed the pw in safe mode but the PW will not take.

Does that help?
Thanks
Rob



"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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RC wrote:
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.

The login screen came about probably because you installed something
requiring the .Net 1.1 framework. Simply going to Windows Update and
patching .Net would have taken care of that for you. Or setting the
computer to automatically log into your Desktop with control userpasswords
2 per:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

I'm honestly unsure of what you've done. What does "no joy" mean about
going into Safe Mode and changing your user account's password from there?
Does this mean that you went into Safe Mode and were unable to get into
the built-in Administrator account? Or you were able to get into the
built-in Administrator account but for some reason couldn't change your
user account's password? If the latter, what happened when you tried?

There is no reason to be nervous about using NTpasswd. It is normally used
to change the built-in Administrator's password to a blank so you can log
into that account and make changes to it or other accounts (or just get
into Windows for other reasons).

There are no "security issues" in XP Home that will create a workaround
(workaround for what?) so I'm not sure what your IT people are talking
about. Post back with a clearer description of exactly what you've done,
answering my questions above, and we can take it from there.


Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


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