Re: Admin accounts

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The Password Reset Disk doesn't care whether you forgot your password or the kids changed it.

If a computer is infected with malware it's a completely different situation.
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Bill Ridgeway wrote:
Leonard. The function of the Password reset Disk is "To protect user accounts in the event that the user forgets the password". This wouldn't be useful if the password has been changed (by kids, possible?) or made unusable by malware (more possible). The most likely remedy is, as you suggest, to install, update antispyware / virus software and scan (all partitions) for threats (preferably in 'Safe' mode). If this is prevented then the hard disk drive may need to be temporarily installed in another computer to do scan.

Bill Ridgeway

"Leonard Grey" <l.grey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23biLArigJHA.1172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Regaining access to your Administrator accounts is not the issue. That can be solved. The /real/ problem - and it's a big one - is how you came to be locked out of your own password protected accounts. In my opinion, either your children or somebody else knows your passwords and changed them, or your computer is infected with malware.

I don't suppose you made a Password Reset Disk:
http://www.petri.co.il/what%27s_the_password_reset_disk_in_windows_xp.htm

Log in to the built-in Administrator account and reset the passwords to your Administrator accounts.

[The built-in Administrator account is a system account, not a regular user account. Do NOT use the built-in Administrator as a regular user account. It is intended for situations like the one you find yourself in now.]
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

shadow wrote:
I had two accounts on my computer set up with passwords so that the children could not access them. For spme reason neither of them accepts my passwords now so I am locked out of both administrative accounts. This means I can not make any changes on my computer, including simple things like setting my virus protection settings.

Any one had the same experience or know how to fix the problem? Thanks!


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