Administrator/owner password recovery - Win XP Home

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Regis

My girlfriend (in college) has an HP machine running Win XP Home Ed.
She is expecting company and wanted to set up a "family or guest"
account, as she has done in the past. However this time she got a
message saying, "computer is locked and only an administrator/owner
can unlock it". She input her p/w and it doesn't work.

A chat with HP resulted in being told that she might have a virus or
spyware which may have done this. Very unhelpful. She has "Norton
A/V", up to date, 'Search & Destroy", ditto, and she runs "Stinger"
periodically. If there was something, it's likely gone now.

Can anyone recommend a program to recover her Admin p/w, which has
been changed? Or to revert the p/w to something which will allow her
to access the system?

Please also bear in mind that she is in no way computer savvy, and I
am too far away to do the hands on thing. Any suggestions would be
much appreciated.

TIA, Regis
 
My girlfriend (in college) has an HP machine running Win XP Home Ed.
She is expecting company and wanted to set up a "family or guest"
account, as she has done in the past. However this time she got a
message saying, "computer is locked and only an administrator/owner
can unlock it". She input her p/w and it doesn't work.

A chat with HP resulted in being told that she might have a virus or
spyware which may have done this. Very unhelpful. She has "Norton
A/V", up to date, 'Search & Destroy", ditto, and she runs "Stinger"
periodically. If there was something, it's likely gone now.

Can anyone recommend a program to recover her Admin p/w, which has
been changed? Or to revert the p/w to something which will allow her
to access the system?

Please also bear in mind that she is in no way computer savvy, and I
am too far away to do the hands on thing. Any suggestions would be
much appreciated.

TIA, Regis
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From http://kiddanger.com/?id=w2kpassword


Blanking the local Administrator's password
Go to this site http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ and get
either the floppy bootdisk version or the CD .iso version.
This is the boot disk image:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bd041205.zip
And, this is the CD .iso image:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/cd041205.zip

Works for me, XP and W2k

Regards,
 
My girlfriend (in college) has an HP machine running Win XP Home Ed.
She is expecting company and wanted to set up a "family or guest"
account, as she has done in the past. However this time she got a
message saying, "computer is locked and only an administrator/owner
can unlock it". She input her p/w and it doesn't work.

A chat with HP resulted in being told that she might have a virus or
spyware which may have done this. Very unhelpful. She has "Norton
A/V", up to date, 'Search & Destroy", ditto, and she runs "Stinger"
periodically. If there was something, it's likely gone now.

Can anyone recommend a program to recover her Admin p/w, which has
been changed? Or to revert the p/w to something which will allow her
to access the system?

Please also bear in mind that she is in no way computer savvy, and I
am too far away to do the hands on thing. Any suggestions would be
much appreciated.

TIA, Regis
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See if this will work for you. Lots of ideas here.
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

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Thanks very much for the ideas. I'm going to try a few on my spare
computer before passing one on the the g/f. Alt.comp.freeware never
fails to deliver. Thanks again.

Regis
 
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