Re: administrator password not accepted at boot Windows XP Pro SP2

And you tried a blank password also?


"Albert" <Albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Malke,

unfortunately (and foolishly) I only have the admin account on the PC; I
will thus have to go the "NTpasswd" route.

One item of importance that I did not mention: after having defined the
admin pasword in windows, I selected the "protect files with password
option"
and since this took a long time I looked in Task Manager and saw program
not
responding.
I then very foolishly (I admit) stopped the file-password protection with
"end program" and rebooted the machine with the previously mentioned
results.
also, I DO remeber the admin password; it's just not accepted..

Am I in for a complete reinstall?

Albert
"Malke" wrote:

Albert wrote:

I recently added password to the administrator account on Windows XP
Pro
SP2; at reboot the password was not accepted; how can I get access to
my
computer?

Apparently you are entering an incorrect password. Make sure your caps
lock
isn't on. Log into another user account with administrative privileges
and
do:

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type "mmc" (without the quotation marks), and then
click
OK to start MMC.
3. Start the Local Users and Groups snap-in.
4. Under Console Root, expand "Local Users and Groups", and then click
Users.
5. In the right pane, right-click Administrator, and then click Set
Password.
6. Click Proceed in the message box that appears.
7. Type and confirm the new password in the appropriate boxes, and then
click OK.

If you only have the one user account (and now you can see why having
only
one user account is foolish, so make an extra one after you get into the
system), 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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