my best friend forgot his win xp home administrator's logon password, again...?

Question

and the way we were using to fix won't work this time... not sure why. This is the 3rd or 4th time he has done this.

Answer 1

One method of gaining access to the system is by trying hard to remember the forgotten password, or a password of another user which has the same level of administrative rights. However I don't think this approach will help you, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here reading article, would you?)

Another method is by trying to restore a backed up System State (in Windows 2000/XP/2003) or a ERD (in NT 4.0) in which you do remember the password. The problem with doing so is that you'll probably lose all of the recently add users and groups, and all the changed passwords for all of your users since the last backup was made.

A third method might be to install a parallel operating system on a different partition on the same computer, then use a simple trick to gain access to the old system. Read more about it on my Forgot the Administrator's Password? - Alternate Logon Trick article.

Note: If you are looking for password cracking tools that can be used for miscellaneous objectives such as password-protected PDF documents, zipped archives, Office documents, BIOS protection and so on then this pages is NOT for you. See some links at the bottom of this page for hints on where to find such tools, but I can tell you right away that Google might be a better choice for you.

The fourth option is by using 3rd party tools that will enable you to reset the lost password and logon with a blank password.

Answer 2

Reboot your computer. When the BIOS loads up it should prompt you to press F2 or F8 or some other function key. When you press that key it should bring up a menu. Select Safe Mode. Now there should be a User Account named "Administrator". Click that and now you can go into the Control Panel and User Accounts to change/delete passwords. You can also make new accounts with Administrator powers.

Answer 3

administrator's logon from safe mode that administrator or did ur friend creat an administrator user account . restart pc. as pc is starting up. keep hitting on (F8)KEY . ur come to safemode screen enter on to safemode hit enter key then hit enter key again . wait for pc to come to . login screen . ur see (administrator) user account
hit on that pc will login . go to control panel . then hit on user account then hit on da . user account you for got password on then ur see ur can hit on change password. do that then restart pc. when at user account screen login to that user account with new password .

Answer 4

just reload the pc and this time dont let him password it

Answer 5

nah, don't worry about it. Tell him to reinstall the PC and don't use any passwords since this is getting out of hand.

and . . .hide his booze please !