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by topcat8 Apr 4, 2003 last reply Apr 8, 2003 1 view

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My daughter forgot her password and now we can't get into her pc, she is running winxp pro and is the only user on the pc. Can anyone help me get in and create another user?

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by hberkhoff Apr 4, 2003

Search on google for :

linux boot floppy for windows nt

The result will give you a site where you can download a linux tool so you can set a new password, see link below :

http://www.securityhorizon.com/whitepapers/archives/ntdisk.html

by topcat8 Apr 8, 2003

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by alpha-male Apr 4, 2003

Take a look here:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/editor.html

Delete any spaces in the URL

Good luck!

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by dcosgrove Apr 7, 2003

There will be an administrator account set up at the initial install. It's worth trying to log in with user as "administrator" and password left blank.

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