My friends.....this case has been puzzling me all evening. I received a laptop from a government surplus sale which came with windows XP professional installed. When I tried to log in with the username and password they created for me, it says something like "You have been locked out, contact your administrator" So, thinking I was a clever ol' soul, I used winternals ERD commander to attempt to change the Adminstrator password (and every other user's password for that matter). When I try to login to the administrator account (with the password I thought I had cracked and reset) it says incorrect username/password. I also changed the password for the other users listed in the program and when I attempt to log in under their names, I get the same locked out message that I initially described.. I need someone's help here. I don't have the XP cd to simply do a re-install, so I really need this thing cracked. Thanks so much in advance.
2006-12-28 16:09:17 · 4 answers · asked by lilchicken_dean2 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Simple. Restart your computer in safe mode. There will be another administrator account that is invisible. Use this account to delete the password on the other administrator account.
2006-12-28 16:13:47 · answer #1 · answered by Tom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
restart the pc and press F8 enter safe mode and change password.
2006-12-28 16:22:11 · answer #2 · answered by bacamacaamaca 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try a system restore
2006-12-28 16:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by definemenow@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/664/Dark_Deal_Windows_Password_Hacking.html
That website shows you how to reset it or hack it.
2006-12-28 16:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by millerman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋