2006-12-12 01:22:13 · 5 answers · asked by Boscombe 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
When you boot up, just before the windows logo appears, press the F8 key until a menu appears. Select "Safe Mode" and press enter. You may need your administrator password for this (if you've set it) otherwise you'll find yourself on the desktop. Open the control panel go into user accounts and you should be able to reset the password or create yourself a new user account. Now reboot.
(edit for additional advice about the Administrator account on Windows XP Home)
If you haven't set the password for the administrator account on your computer, you *really* should. As you can see in the steps above, anyone can change your logon password and gain access to your computer via safe mode if they know how and the admin account is unprotected. To change it, go back to User Accounts *in safe mode*, select the administrator account and click change logon password.
2006-12-12 01:35:27 · answer #1 · answered by Jeremy 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If it is the local admin password that you have mistyped the use the following link, this works as I have used it several times.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
2006-12-12 01:33:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
open up in safe mode. keep pressing delete button untill it opens up in safe mode . then click in as administrater and you can change the password
2006-12-12 01:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by alectaf 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Format and reinstall windows and make sure you type in the password correctly this time!
2006-12-12 01:25:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
try system restore
2006-12-12 01:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by bextersmom97 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋