Re: password problem
- From: "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:28:49 -0500
"Jeff" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9176ADBD-896F-4C16-A4C5-F617AC0008BF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have an XP Home SP2 PC that is giving me problems with user account
passwords. The PC had a rather nasty spyware infection on it, and so I
proceeded to clean it up. After everything was cleaned up, I rebooted the PC
and all was ok. The next time I rebooted however, every user account on the
PC (5 plut Administrator) is asking for a password, and there is no password
on any of the accounts. I went into Safe Mode, and even the Administrator
account is asking for a password. I downloaded and ran a tool called the
Windows NT/2K/XP password change utility, which I have used before to reset
unknown passwords on user accounts, but the utility says that all the
accounts on the computer have blank passwords. I tried a repair install of
XP, but that did not help. How can I get logged back into this PC? Thanks
for any ideas....!
Jeff
Boot the machine.
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice at the Welcome screen.
Type in the name of the administrator account.
Leave the password blank if one isn't used.
Press Enter.
How to log on to Windows XP if you forget your password or if your password expires
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305/en-us
Passwords Are Unexpectedly Assigned to User Accounts After You Upgrade to Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318026/en-us
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