How do I remove the start-up password?

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well being ever so impatient, i went ahead and expanded userinit.exe, and it
didn't make a difference. so i am back to square one; i still can't bypass
the logon screen. if anyone can help.....i'd be much obliged.
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Please quote enough of the message you're responding to to put your
reply into context (as I did above). Many newsgroup participants (me,
for example) don't save already-read messages and a message without a
quote is likely to be completely unintelligible to many people.

Although I'd like to help if I could, I have no idea what you're
talking about.
 
ok I did the f8 thing, I see:
safe mode
safe mode with networking
safe mode with command prompt
enable boot logging
enable vga mode
last known good configuration
directory services restore mode (windows domain controllers only)
debugging mode
disable automatic restart on system failure
start windows normally
reboot
return to os choices menu

i've selected all of them one by one and still don't see "administrator" as
an option in the logon window...it displays my user name "suzanne" and i
can't type a password. if i press / click enter it just says it can't log me
on.
 
sorry about that, i've never posted before. i'm probably messing up this
thread...if i need to repost a new thread please let me know.

if not, here's my dilemma:
i'm stuck at the logon prompt, can't change my username (suzanne) or type in
a password. clicking 'ok' gives me an error message to make sure my
username/pw are correct. when i go into safe mode, i get the same thing- no
option to choose an administrator account, and ctrl/alt/del (twice) doesn't
do anything. The only time i can actually enter the administrator password
(null) is when i use my recovery cd and choose repair. but then i get to the
c:\windows prompt and don't know what to do next.
 
sorry about that,
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OK, thanks for correcting the error.

i've never posted before. i'm probably messing up this
thread...if i need to repost a new thread please let me know.
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No, you should *never* start a new thread--not unless the original one
is *very* old.

And by the way, this isn't a web-based forum; it's a newsgroup. You
are using the awful web interface to participate in this
newsgroup--it's the slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method of
using the newsgroups there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a
newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows XP, or
Windows Mail, which comes with Vista. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm




if not, here's my dilemma:
i'm stuck at the logon prompt, can't change my username (suzanne) or type in
a password. clicking 'ok' gives me an error message to make sure my
username/pw are correct. when i go into safe mode, i get the same thing- no
option to choose an administrator account, and ctrl/alt/del (twice) doesn't
do anything. The only time i can actually enter the administrator password
(null) is when i use my recovery cd and choose repair. but then i get to the
c:\windows prompt and don't know what to do next.
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Start | Run, type "control userpasswords2" Select the account you want
to logon to automatically. Then uncheck the box "Users must enter a
user name and password to use this computer."

Or do the same thing with TweakUI.
 
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