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by banhawan

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hello..
i have a pc and i forget the password in the OS. my OS is windows Xp.is there other anyways that i can log in because i cant remember anymore my password

john

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by sumesh.adiyapurath

try to guess the password, i always suggest thts the best method. if you can't there are lots of tools available on the net to help you. these tools may be expensive , but here we have some free tools and they work great. i have listed a few tools below , go and download , follow the instrctions, you can finish it in minutes, only thing is you need a physcial access to your computer.

http://www.loginrecovery.com
windows password recover tool

this tool doesn't change your password , instead it tells you whats ur old password.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd - password reseter tools

there are many other tools and i am sure more users will be posting more info abt that.

by gary56789

If you never renamed the original Admin account, type administrator for the username and leave the password box blank.

If this doesn't work, the link given in answer 1 is great.

Another solution which I haven't tried is to navigate to http://www.loginrecovery.com/
Here you download a file which will create a bootable floppy or CD. When you restart the pc needing the password, it creates a file which you email to the author of the program. Your password is emailed back to you.

by 3xp3rt

If don't work any of this you have one solution, to reinstall the OS.
Unfortunately if you have not the Administrator password, your options are very limited.

by sathish_ampra

Hi,

If the machine is newly installed & do not contain much user profiles, then you can rename the SAM file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\config and restart the machine & login with blank password.

Make sure you have the backup of system before you start.

by kalanziut

triangle suggested password changer but i guess u have to 1st install it yet john says dat he can't log into admin account meaning, he can't install any thiing. do u have any way of using
password-changer without istallation on de taget machine?? reply if still there.

by kalanziut

Ok, prior to 1st post,.. i stand to be corrected.
one can use Active Password-Changer without 1st installing on the target machine.

Active Password-changer rocks!!!

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