Lost Admin log on password and name, please help

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Michelle

Greetings all,

Please help me out in this tricky situation. I have bought
an old computer which I thought I was given the
administrator password.It turns out that the account that
I have is a limited account and I am not able to find out
the adminstrator account Log in name and password. I can't
use LC4 as suggested by somebody before as I can't even
load the program. Please do help me out. I have spent good
money on it. thanks
 
Michelle said:
Greetings all,

Please help me out in this tricky situation. I have bought
an old computer which I thought I was given the
administrator password.It turns out that the account that
I have is a limited account and I am not able to find out
the adminstrator account Log in name and password. I can't
use LC4 as suggested by somebody before as I can't even
load the program. Please do help me out. I have spent good
money on it. thanks
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try not putting anything in the password box, ie leave it blank.
 
Winternals makes a s/w package called locksmith that will do the job,
however it is a bit pricey. $199 for the ERD Commander 2003 that include
locksmith and a bunch of other really cool utilities, really is worth the
price for all utilities, but not just for locksmith.
http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/erdcommander2002.asp

Sunbelt software also makes an NT admin Password recovery software called
NTAccess - $70 http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=265

Here is another one, but again high priced - $199 -
http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm



here is an alternate, and free, utility. I cannot tell you if this one
works or not, as there are many out there, I have tried a couple, but
unfortunately do not remember wich ones.

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk -
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/


Good luck

Steve.
 
Gordon Burgess-Parker said:
try not putting anything in the password box, ie leave it blank.

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Hello:

Not quite sure if this will work. I haven't tried to set up a new
Administrator account this way.

I am assuming that you are using XP home and not Professional. Professional
has other features that give you access to the Administrator accounts.

There is a hidden Administrator account that you can access by starting your
computer in Safe Mode (by pressing F8 during startup). Hope this works.

Albert S
 
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