First time i've posted in this forum so hoping that someone can help me out...
A colleague at work has just returned from a 6 month secondment and cannot remember the password for his home PC. He is running Windows XP service pack 2.
There is only one account on the PC, so he cannot access the PC at all at the moment.
Is there anyway to recover the password or get into the system any other way?
He has quite a lot of files on the PC that he would rather not delete, so if there is anyway to do this without formatting and reinstalling the OS that would be great.
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If the "safemode password reset" doesn't work, you can use the free "boot cd" to reset your password. I've used it a couple of times on windows xp, and it works excellent everytime.
It looks hard to use, but as long as you use the default settings, it will work.
then it will say something just press one and it will pop up with a list of options number 4 should say
Quote:account seams locked at this time or account is not locked
if it says its locked press 4 to unlock it then press 1 to remove the password then press q to quit and then type reboot in the command prompt and now the password should be gone also you can type
Quote:winpass -u THE USER NAME OF ACCOUNT YOU WANT TO ACCESS
AND press 1 when asked and then choose 1 again and then reboot and the password should be gone hope this is of some help
( YOU can remove the passwords from any account just use the winpass -u ACCOUNT USER NAME command ;-)
