I am using windows xp professional at my home. I forgot the password. Now i want to reset the password.
How can i do that?
Is there any boot disk to reset the admin password?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
I am using windows xp professional at my home. I forgot the password. Now i want to reset the password.
How can i do that?
Is there any boot disk to reset the admin password?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Hi,
Follow the below steps to reset your admin password :
- Restart the computer.
- On the Windows XP logon screen, click the user name that you want to use, and then press ENTER.
- Click Use your password reset disk. The Password Reset Wizard starts. The Password Reset Wizard enables you to create a new password for your user account.
- In the Password Reset Wizard dialog box, click Next.
- Insert the password reset disc into the CD drive, and then click Next.
- Type a new password in the Type a new password box, and then type the password again in the Type the password again to confirm box.
- In the Type a new password hint box, type a hint for the password, and then click Next.
- Click Finish, and then try to log on to Windows XP again.
- Pull the hard drive from the machine
- Install it in a drive enclosure (OR plug it into another machine's IDE/SATA/SCSI/(whatever it is) port and give it power)
- Boot up with that second machine's normal boot drive as 'Administrator' and access or change permissions on any files on the drive you like.
- Put the drive back in its original case.
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