XP asking for a password that was never created!

[Farley]

Hi
I have a acer laptop with XP SP2 installed on it. till the day before yesterday it was working fine but yesterday when i booted the laptop it asking me for password but the password was never created or set ,i am the only account in the system can anybody tell me why this happening ? I looked on the web and there was some about screensaver passwords and stuff like that. Problem is that i cant log in to disable anything. Safe mode is also not working. Any advice will be helpfull.

[Dion]

If there is not much then reinstalling XP is one option.

[Farley]

I have really important data on it so reload is really a bad option please if anybody have face this problem then please help me !

[Mac rumor]

Hi
I have a acer laptop with XP SP2 installed on it. till the day before yesterday it was working fine but yesterday when i booted the laptop it asking me for password but the password was never created or set ,i am the only account in the system can anybody tell me why this happening ? I looked on the web and there was some about screensaver passwords and stuff like that. Problem is that i cant log in to disable anything. Safe mode is also not working. Any advice will be helpfull.

Hi
You can use the Offline NT password and registry Editor.

• This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista etc system.
• You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
• It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD or another system.
• Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
• There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing.

Best of luck!