I assume that "password her screen" means that your daughter has created
a password for her user account that she no longer remembers. If you
have another user account with administrative privileges you can log
into that account and remove your daughter'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 make the
desired changes. Then you need to speak to your daughter about not doing
this again. There are ways for you to secure your computer against her
doing this, but all technical solutions to this sort of issue are flawed
and technical solutions do not really work for interpersonal/familial
problems.
Malke
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