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Is there anyway to reset the windows logon password?

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edm

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Ok, I know this sounds stupid, but a girl I work with set the password on her computer (so her kids couldn't log on), but now she doesn't remember what the password is 😱

I did a google search, but the only thing I could find was to set up a second boot drive (or something along those lines), but she is pretty computer illiterate, so are there any easy ways to reset a password? I'm guessing there isn't.

I don't even think she has the original OS disc to do a format.

And yes, I will tell her to write down the password next time :laugh:

Thanks
 
At the logon screen, press CTRL ALT DEL twice, then try the username Administrator with a blank password. You may need to do this in Safe Mode and stand on one foot. Once logged on, you can reset the password on any account. If there were files encrypted with the Encrypting File System, they will never open again, but that's not something a lot of people would do.
 
Thanks. We'll give it a try. I'll post back if it worked or not. btw, is that the left foot or right foot? 😉
 
There's also a way you can kill explorer and bring it back up as System, which will allow you to change even the Administrator password if you've forgotten it.
 
There's also a way you can kill explorer and bring it back up as System, which will allow you to change even the Administrator password if you've forgotten it.
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Only administrators can schedule tasks to run as other users, including SYSTEM so if you can do that then you can also just change the password the normal way.
 
Originally posted by: Brazen
Originally posted by: htne
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
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60% of the time it works, EVERYTIME!
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When run properly I've never had Peter Nordahl's password reset utility not work. The problem most people run into is that they don't do the process correctly - its definatley not intuitive.

But also standard safemode, log in as administrator (which on most consumer computers has no password set) and change passwords from there.
 
For future reference, it is also very easy in XP to use TweakUI for that. With TweakUI it matters not whether you are logged in as Administrator or the named user that is also the Administrator. (As in a sole user machine.)
 
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