Re: Administrator Password
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:57:58 -0700
MAL wrote:
With all due respect, I was hoping to not have to reinstall. Computer is old.
"Compugeek404" wrote:
Contact your computer manufacturer or reinstall windows
"MAL" wrote:
I am the only user on this computer XP Home. All of a sudden yesterday, I lost admin rights on the only user on the machine. Don't know why. I have firewall, virus protection, adaware etc. Now I can't do control panel etc. Went into safe mode and found the admin user that is only in safe mode. But, blank does not work as a password. It keeps asking me for the password. What can I do
There is absolutely no need to reinstall - at least not because of the password issue.
If you have forgotten your password, if you have another user account with administrative privileges you can log into that account and change your original user account's password from the User Accounts applet in Control Panel. If you don't have another account like this set up or don't have the password to it, you'll need to log into the built-in Administrator account. In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden Administrator account. The default password is a blank.
In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen, do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows.
If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the built-in Administrator account's password to a blank.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords that you will remember and make other desired changes.
Malke
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