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I have windows xp home edition and I lost administrator password. How do I recover this password?
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by sgt_shultz
unless you have changed it, the default is NULL (that is, blank). does that help?
by brown bear
Log on using another administrator account and go to Start, Run and type
control userpasswords2 , Select Administrator from the list and choose reset
password.
by grbeckmeyer
If none of that works, download this to create a password reset disk.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
by rhema7
NT Offline Password and registry editor.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Very powerful please read instruction carefully.
Default setting usually enought it will blank the password or edit the sam file.
Preston
by rhema7
sorry I did not realize it had been posted running low on caffine.
by ffdheva
is it the user account password or system account password, if user account password, reboot-tap f8 key-safe mode-administrator-control panel-user accounts-click user-change password
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