RE: forgot password
From: Ashokan Achari [MSFT] (v-ashach_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/21/04
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:05:26 GMT
Hi,
The security features in XP is strong. It's difficult to get into the
system without a commercially available tools on the net. Try the following:
1. Login to the system with a user who had administrative rights.
2. You can also log into with the default or Bult-in Administrator account
and the password is the one you have set during initial setup of Windows XP
Please see the solution in the KB Article # 321305 "How to log on to
Windows XP if you forget your password or your password expires"
(I have pasted the contents of the Article below)
To log on to Windows XP, use any one of the following methods:
Method 1: Use a password reset disk
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If you created a password reset disk for Windows XP, reset your password by
using the password reset disk.
For additional information about how to use a password reset disk, click
the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:
305478 How to create and use a password reset disk for a computer that is
not a domain member in Windows XP
306214 How to create and use a password reset disk for a computer in a
domain in Windows XP
Method 2: Log on as an administrator to reset the password
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If you cannot log on to Windows by using a particular user account
(including the Administrator or Computer Administrator accounts), but you
can log on to another account that has administrative credentials
(including the Administrator or Computer Administrator accounts), follow
these steps:
1. Log on to Windows by using the administrator account that has a password
that you remember.
Note: You cannot log on as usual by using the Administrator or
Computer Administrator account to a Windows XP Home Edition-based computer
or to a Windows XP Professional-based computer in a workgroup. To log
on as the Administrator or Computer Administrator, you must start
Windows XP in safe mode. For additional information, see the "Windows
XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional in a workgroup" section.
2. Click Start, and then click Run.
3. In the Open box, type the following command, and then click OK:
control userpasswords2
4. Click the user account that you forgot the password for, and then click
Reset Password.
5. Type a new password in both the New password and the Confirm new
password boxes, and then click OK.
Warning: If you reset the password for a user account in this manner
in Windows XP Professional, the following kinds of information for that
user will
be no longer available:
a. E-mail messages that are encrypted with the user's public key.
b. Internet passwords that are saved on or remembered by the computer.
c. Any files that the user has encrypted.
You should now be able to log on to Windows with the user account and the
new password. The following sections provide step-by-step instructions to
reset the password for a typical user account in Safe Mode by using the
Administrator (or Computer Administrator account.
Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional in a workgroup
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To log on as Administrator and reset the password, follow these steps:
1. Restart the computer. After the Power On Self Test (POST), press the F8
key.
2. On the Windows Advanced Options menu, use the ARROW keys to select Safe
Mode, and then press ENTER.
3. When you are prompted to select the operating system to start, select
Microsoft Windows XP edition (where edition is the edition of Windows XP
that is installed), and then press ENTER.
4. On the To begin, click your user name screen, click Administrator.
5. Type the administrator password, and then press ENTER.
Note: In some cases, the Administrator password may be set to a
blank password. In this case, do not type a password before you press ENTER.
6. Click Yes to acknowledge that Windows is running in safe mode.
7. Click Start, and then click Control Panel (or point to Settings, and
then click Control Panel).
8. Click User Accounts.
9. Click the user account whose password you want to change.
10. Click Change the Password if you want to keep a password, or click
Remove password if you do not want to use a password. If you remove the
password, go to step 11.
11. Type the new password for the user, and then click Change Password.
12. Quit the User Accounts tool, and then restart the computer.
Windows XP Professional in a domain
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To log on as Administrator to reset the password, follow these steps:
1. In the Welcome to Windows dialog box, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE.
2. Type the logon information for the Administrator account, including the
password, and then click OK.
Note: The Administrator password may be set to a blank password. In this
case, do not type a password before you click OK.
3. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
4. In the Computer Management (Local) box, expand Local Users and Groups.
5. Click the Users folder.
6. In the right pane of the Computer Management window, right-click the
user account whose password you want to reset, and then click Set Password.
7. Click Proceed.
8. In the New password box, type the new password for the user account.
9. Type the same password in the Confirm password box, and then click OK.
10. Click OK to acknowledge that the new password has been set.
11. Quit the Computer Management snap-in, and then restart the computer.
Hope this helps ...... :)
Ashok (Ashokan Achari)
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