Re: Help Resetting Passwords on XP
- From: "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:40:59 -0500
Right, this is typical of the Blazefind issue mentioned in the article I
linked to. Your passwords and accounts *are* being recognized and accepted,
it's the userinit value that is screwed up.
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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Mark" <markxyz59@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It's XP Home, and I guess I wasn't clear enough.
>
> My wife was doing windows updates, then the machine asked to reboot.
> She clicked "ok", and when it rebooted it brought up the usename and
> password window. When she typed in her account and password, it would
> log in, and then immediately save settings and logout, ending up back
> at the login window. All accounts on this machine do this. You type
> your password, up comes your personal backround for a sec, then it
> saves setting and logs you out.
>
> We got an XP Home Upgrade CD (I have no idea which computer it belongs
> to as we have five in the house). I was able to get the System Restore
> Console up from "boot from CD", and then login with "no password". Now
> we can "see" our files on C and D, but we cannot copy or access them.
>
> What should we do now? Are we completely screwed because windows
> update screwed up our password file? Or, is there something else we
> should try from the System Restore Console?
>
> Thanks...
>
> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:09:53 GMT, markxyz59@xxxxxxx (Mark) wrote:
>
>>I posted earlier about Windows Updates screwing up and not accepting
>>any passwords (it would login and then quickly log out). Good News: I
>>was able to get the Recovery Console to give us access to the disk. We
>>can see C and D drives and all files are there.
>>
>>Is there a way to clobber/reset passwords from the command prompt?
>>
>>Our first instinct was to stick a USB Drive in and copy stuff, but the
>>USB drivers don't appear to be there on the recovery console.
>>
>
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