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by fellows_daniel

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I have wondering for a while how to recover a password on a computer that is running Windows XP.

A single stand alone computer with only one account. Is there a back door somewhere? Do you boot up with a boot disk then using a cracking program?

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by aramok

If you are running on a FAT file system then yes, there is. delete the sam file (no extension) in the %systemroot%\system32\config folder....
this will delete all accounts created locally and when the amchien restarts it will create a new sam filewhich will have a guest and administrator userid where the passwords are blank.

If you are running with an NTFS file system and you don't know alot about pc's then your probably stuck.... there are ways and means but you really MUST know what youare doing...

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