recover windows xp password
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recover windows xp password
a friend lost his windows xp password and now he cannot login. Any ideas how to log in again?
Thank you
Thank you
Re: recover windows xp password
http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html
It may take up to 3 minutes to recover all your user accounts.
Good Luck!
It may take up to 3 minutes to recover all your user accounts.
Good Luck!
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Re: recover windows xp password
If you have physical access to the machine, surely you can boot into some sort of single user mode and reset the admin password? Even if that means booting off of the recovery CD.
Re: recover windows xp password
Also, you can try this way, which was highlighted by Roger Halbheer, Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft EMEA.
http://www.offensive-security.com/movie ... ahack.html
http://www.offensive-security.com/movie ... ahack.html
Re: recover windows xp password
Chris, Windows Vista does not have a single user mode of any sort. It does have a safe mode, but that requires the Admin password (finally). Also, the recovery CD is not of much use. If it's a manufacturers CD, it will restore by imaging, erasing data, and if it is a Vista install CD, you can do a few things, most of which are of no help here. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/window ... e1033.mspx
Ah well..... I shall stick to Linux.
Ah well..... I shall stick to Linux.
Re: recover windows xp password
Press F8 while it's booting up to get into safe mode. You'll see the admin account. Click it.
Re: recover windows xp password
Astions, that would work in XP, or if Vista did not have a password. Otherwise, it will prompt for a password before letting you in.
Re: recover windows xp password
Yeah, he was asking about xp.
Re: recover windows xp password
Astions,
I am an idiot with a bad memory. You're quite right, that will work splendidly.

I am an idiot with a bad memory. You're quite right, that will work splendidly.
Re: recover windows xp password
going to admin on f8 does not work, since he does not have the password. I found a site that provided a little hack but, it mess the computer. Basically yo are asked to Repair the partition, when it reboots(do not click on load from cd), wait until it says installing driver, then click shift -f10 and you get a command prompt, from there you have to type something(sorry I dont have the link with me) and you get the user control panel. There you change the password. It all worked except, that know when the machine boots it asked to be register with microsoft, but for some reason, the machine cannot connect to microsoft. So I guess he will have to do, what he did not want to do at the beginning(take out laptop drive and using USB , backup data, then , reinstall).
Re: recover windows xp password
I did not recover the password. I changed it.
Re: recover windows xp password
I hope that you will find this useful:
http://www.wikihow.com/Retrieve-a-Lost- ... P-Password
http://www.wikihow.com/Retrieve-a-Lost- ... P-Password