PhilipBenno said:
Hello
If you have forgotten your Administrator password and your own user password
with admin rights ,and all your other users are not admin. How or is there a
way
of resetting the password to blank on the built in admin account and logging
in as administrator with password blank and resetting your own user id with
another
password.
Help I'am on the verge of fomatting the disk is this too drastic.
Standard answer: If you have forgotten your password, if you have
another user account with administrative privileges you can log into
that account and change your original user account's password from the
User Accounts applet in Control Panel. If you don't have another account
like this set up or don't have the password to it, you'll need to log
into the built-in Administrator account. In XP Home, boot the computer
into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly tapping the F8 key as the computer
is starting up. This will get you to the right menu. Navigate using your
Up arrow key; the mouse will not work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will
see the normally hidden Administrator account. The default password is a
blank.
In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen,
do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in
"Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows.
If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or
have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the
built-in Administrator account's password to a blank.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords
that you will remember and make other desired changes.
Malke
