Re: Lost Administrator Password

Some questions:
- If the OP had a second admin account, why perform
your registry hack? She could simply reset the original
admin's password!
- If she does not have a second admin account, how can
she get into the registry?
- Your registry hack makes accounts visible on the initial
logon screen. How should this help her with a lost
password?

"Overly Happy Blue Panda" <OverlyHappyBluePanda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:B2980A69-C8F8-4F6B-8C00-78D523CD1615@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> If you have another account with Administrator priveleges, you can open
that
> notepad file through that account if you haven't made the Administrator's
> files private. If you can't open the file, the instructions below will
help
> you to make it so that you can edit the Administrator account through the
> Users control panel by editing the registry. I hope it's easy enough to
> understand. =)
>
> Click Start, Run, and type in "regedit" (without the quotes). Press OK.
> Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows
> NT/Winlogon/SpecialAccounts/UserList. Right-click in the right frame and
> choose New, DWORD Value. Name the new value "Administrator" (again,
without
> the quotes). Double-click the value to edit it, and change the number in
the
> Value Data field to 1. Then make sure Decimal is selected under Base.
Press
> OK. Close the Registry Editor and open Users in the Control Panel. You
should
> now be able to edit the Administrator account from there. Good luck!
>
> "Irma" wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to find the password to the administrator account if
you
> > made a new password for it but didn't write it down? I have the password
> > written in the administrator account, in a notepad document but I forgot
to
> > write it down on actual paper and I can't remember it now because it's
just
> > all basically letters, numbers and symbols.


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