Re: Startup error or something more?

"Poprivet" <poprivet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rock wrote:
"Richards" <Richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
I hope i'm in the right area. I recently updated my wifes compaq
presario 2100 with the sp2 pack. Today she went to start it up and
it no longer shows
her login name at the startup screen. Her login was 'home' with no
password
assigned. I hit crtl+alt+del and tried logging in that way. It keeps
asking
for a password for the 'home' login. But there isnt one assigned!
Help me please i dont know what to do

XP Home or Pro? If Pro from ctrl-alt-del type in Administrator and
enter the password assigned to that account when XP was installed or
try a blank password. If that gets you in to to the user accounts
applet in control panel and change the password on her account.

If XP Home start in Safe Mode. Restart the computer, as the BIOS
splash screen disappears repeatedly tap the F8 key until the Advanced
Options menu appears including Safe Mode as one option. Choose that.
At the welcome screen the Administrator account should be displayed. Normally that password is blank. Once in set a password on her
account.
If you can't get in reset the Administrator password using this
utility. http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/editor.html

Except, the author says that software is ALPHA and not even BETA, and big disclaimers and all that, saying he's "working" on it,but that was apparently last June. Looks to me like he's more interested in playing with Vista than taking care of business in his installed base. Bad practices.
Not sure I'd trust that software on any machine I had to work on. Better to reinstall from archives or better re-image.

Just my two cents. Never rely on an ALPHA software, IMO.

AFAIK that password utility has been around for some time with many people recommending it. I have recommended it numerous times in the past and folks have posted back success. How can one rely on an image to restore the system if one doesn't have an image? I'm going on what the OP posted.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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