I need to reset a password on a windows XP machine as Iost the password! What do I do?

Answer 1

If you lost the administrator password you can use a program called ERD Commander. You will be able to boot from the cd and reset the administrator password.

Answer 2

You have several options to reset passwords on XP Machines.

Under the computer management module, you can go to the users group and reset the password for any user if you signed in as the administrator.

If you lost your password as the Administrator, you can use your original XP disk to do a repair and reset your password. But information loss is a factor.

I personally just read the sam file and change it that way. This method I can't share because of the kids on here that will be using it for other then good reasons. And if you do try it this way, you can really mess things up good if you don't know what you're doing.

If you want a professional way to do it, just take it into a shop and they will do it this way for you.

Hope this helps, Good Luck

Answer 3

Best program I have used is Offline NT password & Registry editor.
It works a treat and you can do all sorts of things to the accounts not just reset them.
I think the best one to do is set the password to a blank password, this has worked better for me in the past. Then reset the password back once you are logged in.
It has a floppy and CD version.
Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Answer 4

Aight this is the easiest question on this site:

Turn on your computer and some how get to start up options - u do this by like clicking F12 or F10 depends on what it tells you when the manufacturer logo appears.

Select start up in "Safe Mode"

When the computer loads up in safe mode, you will see that there is a new user account called "Administrator". This will have no password but has limited features designed to fix problems.

Under safe mode administrator, go to Start >>> Control Panel>>> user accounts>>> and go to your account and REMOVE PASSWORD.

Then all you do is restart normally, log on to your account w/no password, and make a new one!!!

yee yee mad easyy

Answer 5

Windows Password Recovery Software : http://tinyurl.com/IHozwcK2xf

Answer 6

ok i think this might help log on to safemode, u may ask how : reset ur computer and press F8 before loading windows u will see ur account and administrator account from there make another user account so u would log on to windows normaly reset the computer. (thats all the info i can provide i don't know if u can delete a password protected user account from another account)

Answer 7

Log in as administrator. Go to control panel, users accounts. If you lost the administrator password you are out of luck, unless you have another account designated as administrator.

Answer 8

This will get you through it.

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=305