How can I logon w/o Admin password?

If you are at the welcome screen upon boot and it is displaying the user accounts, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the windows logon. Here you should be able to type in "Administrator" with a blank password or "Guest" with a blank password. Unless these too have been password protected. Good luck.

Is this the system admin password - if so - what model of laptop. If not what operating system are you running?

The easiest way I've found is to use the disk on this site: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

It has worked great for me the few times I needed it, and I have heard many people who use it all the time and never had a problem. Just remember if by chance there were any encrpyted files you need under that account they will be lost forever (doubtful, don't know many people using EFS, especially on a personal system).

Of course, if you don't need any of the files on there at all, just install a new OS and select to format the hard drive when prompted.

I am running Windows XP Professional on A PC It won't let me get past the welcome screen when the Administrator name comes up and the password hint is "ruberband will"...I have tried everything. I tried to boot the system up from CD, and I couldn't even get it to do that. Is there a way I can get into MS-DOS on Startup?

well there is a registry hack but you have to get on to Windows to do it or at least into safe mode. Other than that, I think your SOL if the administrator changed the name of the admin account plus made that account a dummy admin account and disabled the quest account including changing the name of the quest account.

Try stretch or snapback

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what passwords have you tried already?
I would suggest SNAP from the hint...
Anyway, what model computer is this? have you tried the Del key on boot to get to the BIOS?

OK, I have tried to logon as a guest as well, and that's been disabled, I have tried the website that was suggested and I am not able to access the floppy disk when I insert it into the computer and it won't fit on floppy disk if I extract the files...
I have also pushed Ctrl+Pause when the scanning screen comes on right after you boot up. But, that hasn't taken me to MS-DOS yet like I was told it will. But I am still trying that, I think it may work. What would I do from there... use START A: or dir A:? Thanks for any help I recieve!

I would contact the individual that you purchased the machine from you must have some type of contact with that person and they would know the password. I would personally format the pc though sense it belonged to someone else make it a clean start

i would try stretch as the password. or turn on your computer hold down the delete key that should get you to bios options and there should be an option to create or disable password that way it has it on my computer

To get a regular login screen tap CTRL+ALT+DEL twice, if the the quick logon is activated. Then use the administrator account and password. If you don't know the password then use the password recovery utility found on this site. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html. On there you can find a way to make it on a cd or a floppy. If putting it on a floppy you will have to use rawwrite2.exe it has a link for that as well. it will also show you all the accounts on the computer. That way you can actually blank out any account on the computer. I do recomend that you actually blank oout the password by using the * command wich actually blanks the password instead of changing the password. That seems to work best. Full instructions are on that site. It has worked great for me many times. Sometimes you may have to do it 2 or 3 times. However the disk is a life saver. If you need any help with it you can email me at dhabih@dhabih.us.