Re: Administrator password changed

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Thanks a lot,

Before I tried anything, I spent like an hour or so trying to guess the
password, and it finally worked. The password was something we had put
from when we had set up the computer something like 5 years ago, and we
had created this other administrator account, however, it disappeared,
and we never used that other password again,

thanks for your help

RajKohli ha escrito:

Before you go with emergency boot CD, I will advise you to do a little trick
to come up with a quick solution. There is an inbuilt administrator account
in Windows XP named "Administrator". If this is not the same account you are
talking about then you might by lucky and login to that account.

Start your Windows and at Welcome Screen press CTR+ALT+DEL [Twice] to bring
up with a dialog box to enter a user name and password. In user name type
"Administrator" and leave the password blank or type a password if you know
there was any. This is will be the password which is being used at the time
of Windows installation.

Else there will be no other way except EBD. Try as said by others. Hope this
help, let us know.

"ddshore@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

Hi,

I was having some trouble with my PC and I used the recovery console to
fix it. I logged into the recovery console with my password and copied
some files from c:\windows\repair to c:\windows\system32\config
(including the sam file). However, now I cannot log back into my
account with my password, and I can't use the recovery console either,
it says it is the wrong password. I urgently need to get back into my
account, is there some sort of default password taht has been set up?
Any help would be appreciated



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