Forgot my password

[atu0999]

This is what happend...yesturday my friend was over and he installed windows xp profecional on my other comp..after he left i was setting my computer up and i seted up a network...after tha ti went to user accaunts and turned guest signing in and welcome screen and put a password..the problem is i cant remember it or i type it wrong somehow..then i turned my computer off and went to sleep and i turned my computer on today and it was locked and it woulent let me in i tryed typing the password in so many times.. ..the computer end up locking itself..then i looked up help in windows how to retrive passwords and i downloaded this program(winpass) and put it on my shared network folder (of the other computer) and i ran it and it didnt work...anyone got any ideas? know of any way to retrive it by cd? or something like that pls pls pls

 

[MSCoder610]

I'm not quite understanding you, but can you log on as the Administrator? If your friend installed WinXP for you on the computer, he probably knows the admin password if you don't.

 

[quique55]

go in safe mode and login as administrator with a blank password. If it doesnt accept it that means someone created one during setup. If you know the administrator password login and change the password to your account through user accounts in the control panel/

 

[Tarrant64]

If it hasn't been set just log in as the adminstrator with no password. I don't think you have to start up in safe mode though. I never had to.

If that doens't work you could always use John the Ripper if you know how.