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Forgotten/Undesired XP Password

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mddolloff

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I jsut booted my laptop (running windows XP home) and I am having a lovely problem. It is prompting me to enter a password for my user accounts. I never had this problem before. It just booted to my only account. Indeed there is still only the defauly account and the guest account. I click on login (as the passwords should be blank) and I get an errror that says "the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon ineractively." Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I can book to the recovery console and get to a command prompt using my empty administrtator password, but I don't know if that is a help or not. Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: mddolloff
I jsut booted my laptop (running windows XP home) and I am having a lovely problem. It is prompting me to enter a password for my user accounts. I never had this problem before. It just booted to my only account. Indeed there is still only the defauly account and the guest account. I click on login (as the passwords should be blank) and I get an errror that says "the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon ineractively." Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I can book to the recovery console and get to a command prompt using my empty administrtator password, but I don't know if that is a help or not. Thanks.
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Are you attached to the internet without any firewall between you and the internet? Disconnect from the internet. Log in as administrator.

I'd suggest looking in Local Users & Groups and seeing if there aren't any new users you don't know about.

Then change all the passwords on all the users on the box, and give everyone a password.

Then confirm you're up to date on your Windows updates.

Then check your account's policies and rights to see if there's anything unusual there.
 
Originally posted by: dclive
Originally posted by: mddolloff
I jsut booted my laptop (running windows XP home) and I am having a lovely problem. It is prompting me to enter a password for my user accounts. I never had this problem before. It just booted to my only account. Indeed there is still only the defauly account and the guest account. I click on login (as the passwords should be blank) and I get an errror that says "the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon ineractively." Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I can book to the recovery console and get to a command prompt using my empty administrtator password, but I don't know if that is a help or not. Thanks.
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Are you attached to the internet without any firewall between you and the internet? Disconnect from the internet. Log in as administrator.

I'd suggest looking in Local Users & Groups and seeing if there aren't any new users you don't know about.

Then change all the passwords on all the users on the box, and give everyone a password.

Then confirm you're up to date on your Windows updates.

Then check your account's policies and rights to see if there's anything unusual there.
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Tried logging in without the internet plugged in and got nothing.
 
Originally posted by: mddolloff
Tried logging in without the internet plugged in and got nothing.
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Got nothing what? Please be explicit.

Local Users & Groups shows more than just you and guest; does it show any accounts you don't recognize?

Anyway, you can log in as administrator and go to Start/Programs/AdminTools/LocalSecurityPolicy. Then go to Local Policies / User Rights Assignments / Log In Locally and tell me who's in that list.
 
Problem is I can only log in as an admin if I do a XP restore and go to the command prompt. I can't boot to graphical windows.
 
Originally posted by: mddolloff
Problem is I can only log in as an admin if I do a XP restore and go to the command prompt. I can't boot to graphical windows.
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When you try to boot to graphical windows, what happens? Please be explicit.
 
I get to the user login screen and i try to login (note that I never got this screen before) and then I get a pop-up box that says "the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon ineractively." Then it boots me back to the user logon screen
 
Originally posted by: mddolloff
I get to the user login screen and i try to login (note that I never got this screen before) and then I get a pop-up box that says "the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon ineractively." Then it boots me back to the user logon screen
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Will Last Known Good let you log in?
 
Originally posted by: mddolloff
I get to the user login screen and i try to login (note that I never got this screen before) and then I get a pop-up box that says "the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon ineractively." Then it boots me back to the user logon screen
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Can you use Remote Desktop to get into the box?
 
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