Re: I locked myself out of XP
- From: "Lee Shipman" <lshipman01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 20:25:46 -0400
There's software available to reset the password & allow you access to your
computer. It'll obviously require that you have access to the internet to
download & run it. Enter this into your web browser:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/editor.html
You can run the software from a floppy or a CD. There's a fair amount of
reading to do before you get started, but on a hunch I tried it, accepting
the default settings, and it worked fine for me (and for another person who
actually did what you did!)
Lee
"Stevie" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:a2bd5$42866448$8b370516$23045@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I screwed up.
>
> I'm fairly new at XP and I was messing around in the Computer
> Management/Users section and saw a User with my name in the Name column
> and
> also saw my name in the Full Name column of the Administrator line. In a
> moment of sheer stupidity, I opened the Properties of what I thought was
> the
> duplicate (the one with my name in the 1st column) and clicked Disabled.
>
> After I logged out I can not log back on. I now seem to be disabled. My
> name is on the list but with a flower as a picture instead of my jet
> plane.
> :) Now it wants a password... I don't remember telling it a password
> during installation or anytime since. I can get into my son and wife's
> logon (they are Limited Accounts) but can't do anything from there. I
> can't
> change any accounts or do a system restore. I can't do a repair with the
> CD
> using a Limited Account.
>
> I've been into safe mode where it gives one logon and it still wants a
> password which I do not know.
>
> Is there a work-around? I know having this Administrator account is
> supposed to keep my kid from installing programs but what do you do if the
> owner is locked out of the house? Am I going to have to do a full install
> of XP? Is it even going to let me? If I could do a System Restore from a
> Limited Account, it would probably be my magic bullet.
>
> I am not looking forward to updating XP and installing all those programs
> again. The one I never got aroung to installing was Norton's Ghost. Go
> figger.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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