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by azdavid99

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My 6-year old niece decided to password protect her profile on her new computer with Win-XP and then promptly forgot it. While in a computer store I read of a fix for this which concerned, among many steps, needing a floppy disc. I was too cheap to pay the $34 for the book and was hoping that somebody might know the steps to this process.

Thanks,
Dave

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by thechas

You're not going to like this answer.

The "fix" is to create a password recovery disk before you loose the password.

I have not read of any way to recover an XP password.

If you still have the admin password, you can create a new profile, and copy her personal files over to the new user.

Chas

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