XP Admin Password

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Greg

I set up my friend to NOT have a password on his admin
lgoin and I made him an administrator with NO password.
After using the system for a while(with MSN dialup) heis
nowbeing asked for an admin password and he is NOT
being allowedto get into his login. The password hint
states "noneya" I told him to try "business" for a
password as in noneya business. It did NOT work.
Does anyone haveany ideas on what to do next other than
wiping the hard drive clean and start reloading XP???
Thanks,
Greg
 
Try having him treat it as a lost password as follows (by the way, it sounds
as though someone else is playing with his system, a possibility since you
didn't make a password for him in the first place):
If you have XP Pro on your computer, at the log in screen type
ctrl-alt-delete
twice. In the user account type administrator, leave the password blank and
press enter. You likely didn't create a password for this hidden account
during setup and if the computer was purchased with XP pre-installed it
doesn't likely have one either,

If you have Home, boot into Safe Mode (F8 after the post test and before
Windows starts. Once Windows starts loading, you've missed it and will have
to try again). You'll have an option to log on as Administrator. Again,
the same procedure, you'll be asked to log in to get into safe mode, type
administrator, leave the password blank and press enter.

This will get you in. Then go to Control Panel, user accounts, select the
specific user and select change password. Once you've changed the password
it would be advisable to create a Password Reset Disk by clicking "Prevent a
Forgotten Password" link in the left pane.
 
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