Re: Need Admin Password for XP Home

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:35:17 +0000

TheJouster wrote:

>Help, my kid changed the User accounts on our home computer. Now I only have
>access on a guest account with limited privileges. The bloody kid is not
>fessing up with the new password he make and my wife says I can't beat it
>out of him.

Hope that he forgot - or did not know - about the reserve, emergency
account called Administrator. Boot, hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to
black; take Safe Mode, There will then be an icon for Administrator on
the Welcome screen. (If not, hit CTL-ALT-DEL twice and enter the
explicit name
Administrator
and leave the password blank - and hope that is still correct)

In that, Start - Run the line
control userpasswords2
where you can select any account name and Reset Password

Including perhaps his. 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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