I cannot remember Admin password, hint meaningless to me. XP Prof.

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I bought and paid for this computer, and the new XP Professional OS software
separately (I am not trying to hack someone else's). I apparently set an
Administrator acct. password and 'hint' at some point but I don't recall
doing it, and so obviously I cannot remember what it is, and the hint doesn't
make any sense at all. There's a very REMOTE possibility that a fellow user
set it but he doesn't seem to recall doing so. I NEED TO EITHER RECOVER IT
OR RESET IT. I am able to get on with my regular account, but not as ADMIN.
If I have to, I CAN resinstall Windows XP but that is such a pain in the $%#
so if there's an easier way, can you let me know ?
 
ccbon said:
I bought and paid for this computer, and the new XP Professional OS
software separately (I am not trying to hack someone else's). I
apparently set an Administrator acct. password and 'hint' at some
point but I don't recall doing it, and so obviously I cannot remember
what it is, and the hint doesn't make any sense at all. There's a
very REMOTE possibility that a fellow user set it but he doesn't seem
to recall doing so. I NEED TO EITHER RECOVER IT OR RESET IT. I am
able to get on with my regular account, but not as ADMIN. If I have
to, I CAN resinstall Windows XP but that is such a pain in the $%# so
if there's an easier way, can you let me know ?
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First off, pointing out what you are *not* trying to do is more of a hint of
being guilty of the bvery thing you are saying you are not doing. You
could, actually, have found this information via Google.

If worse comes to worse, you can indeed "hack" the administrators password
using one of the many methods of doing so on the Internet.

Hack your password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Another Password Hack:
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html
 
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