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Posted by hehe on January 17, 2008, 12:05 am
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I have a feeling you will be able to crack pass in matter of minutes :D
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> copterbob wrote:
>> I had a question that I submitted several days ago relating to geting
>> past the welcome window on a PC with WinXP Pro SPK 2 installed that had
>> an administrator pasword that was established by a person no longer with
>> us. There is data in that Pc that we would like to obtain for our college
>> course, and want to know if there is a way to get into the operating
>> system around the unknown password. The password hint says birth date,
>> but we have no way of knowing what date was used.
>> I know you can create a lost password floppy disc, but you have to get
>> into control panel, and we can't do that without getting into the
>> operating system, and one made on another PC won't work. I have had no
>> replys as yet, can anyone out there help???
>> Bob R
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> If you have forgotten your password, if you have another user account with
> administrative privileges you can log into that account and change your
> original user account's password from the User Accounts applet in Control
> Panel. If you don't have another account like this set up or don't have
> the password to it, you'll need to log into the built-in Administrator
> account.
>
> In XP Pro, at the Welcome Screen do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic
> Windows logon box. Type in "Administrator" and whatever password you
> assigned when you set up Windows.
>
> If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or have
> Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the built-in
> Administrator account's password to a blank.
>
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
>
> Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords
> that you will remember and make other desired changes.
>
> To change the built-in Administrator account in XP Pro if you can log into
> another account with administrative privileges reset the password in the
> Local Users and Groups snap-in in Microsoft Management Console (MMC):
>
> 1. Click Start, and then click Run.
> 2. In the Open box, type "mmc" (without the quotation marks), and then
> click OK to start MMC.
> 3. Start the Local Users and Groups snap-in.
> 4. Under Console Root, expand "Local Users and Groups", and then click
> Users.
> 5. In the right pane, right-click Administrator, and then click Set
> Password.
> 6. Click Proceed in the message box that appears.
> 7. Type and confirm the new password in the appropriate boxes, and then
> click OK.
>
>
> Malke
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