password help?

Question

About a year ago we changed the password on our old computer which had windows XP on it, Since then we have gotten a new computer and havnt touched our old computer in months, we tried to open the old computer today because our friend is taking it but we can not remember the password that we put on it. Is their anyway we can change or reset the password without reinstalling windows on it.

We can not reinstall windows XP
What are reliable softwares that we can crack it with

Answer 1

look to this link for a number of password revealers...

http://www.freewareplanet.net/pwreveal.php

if it's a win xp machine this link at microsoft tells what to do if you forgot the password to log on...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305

if it was a win 98 machine,you should be able to start in safe mode and delete the .pwl files on your computer. this may also work for win xp but haven't had to do it so can't vouch for the solution in that scenario...

Answer 2

Use a windows xp boot disk and reinstall windows xp. this will not delete anything but will install over the old version and get rid of the password. If the copy of xp is legal, meaning if you have a new copy of xp for your new computer and can give the other copy to the friend, then you can contact microsoft and they will help you resolve the problem. It has to be a boxed copy of xp and not one that is pre-installed or you have to go back to the place that sold you the computer to fix it and it will or should not cost more than 35 bucks to do this. Take care Heather

Answer 3

Don't worry about the password! If you are giving the computer to a friend, you should completely re-install Windows, formatting during the install process to clear your old personal stuff.
Of course, you must have the old installation CD and product key in order to do this.
Don't forget to run Windows update after install as many fixes etc have been done since that CD was purchased!

Answer 4

You can also crack also there are many softwares avaiable