Re: Help - my new laptop forgot login PW

Jim wrote:

I'm running XP Home. I have a second Administrator account named wxyz
with a PW of 1234 (examples).

I did boot into Safe mode and re-entered my original PW in my wxyz
account. I did this several times but Windows would still not let me
log-in.

I finally decided to change the PW to something other then 1234 and
then I could log-in!!

Why did I have to change the PW?

I have no idea. Perhaps you had caps lock on. There is simply no way for
me to tell. In any case, I'm glad you got it sorted.

Malke
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