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Administrator Password Nightmare

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by cecile

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I have a company computer running windows XP.
I doubt if anyone added an Administrator password...HOWEVER...When I added my own user account-I created a password for it. When I went to reboot it wouldn't accept my password.
Somehow,after reading all the different threads, I was able to get in and uncheck the password...When I rebooted again, it asked for the Administrator password??? I tried my old one, I tried leaving it blank & I tried cursing at it!. Now, the only way I can get in is as "Guest" and I need to finish a report for work. HELP!

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by older mycroft

Only the one that relates to the user ID entered above.

Change the user ID to your own ID and use your new password on that.

by ak233

Windows Xp, The Administrator's default password is usually blank. And normally requires you to be in safe mode. Do you not have a password recovery disk. If you google how to reset administrator password you will probably get some usefull results. Most of them will reset the password not recover it. Meaning you must own that computer.

by bennner

Go to the command prompt, (Start menu>run>CMD) and
type the folllowing in the command prompt:

net user ACCOUNT NAME *

Type the new password. It will not show stars or the
password but it is typeing

by wizard-09

Net user will not resolve his problem as he has a limited account, you need admin rights to run the net user command, he can however use the system account if he knows how ;)

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