Locked out of Windows XP

[MrPShah]

Disregards all my other accounts, and when the login screen shows it displays "Administrator" username, I don't remember my password for the admin, is there anyway to log back in?

 

[thecrecarc]

well, i am not sure about this but i think clearing the cmos helps

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc
well, i am not sure about this but i think clearing the cmos helps

thecrecarc: Actually, that relates to the motherboard. Not the OS.

MrPShah: By default the Administrator account doesn't have a password. Log into it that way. If you want it to dissappear disable the account.

 

[Paperlantern]

i would hope that it was as simple as that, definitly try that, a blank password for admin would be a sweet fix, but just in case its not, try typing in YOUR username in place of administrator and of course your password, hoping your account is also an administrator, ou can get in that way and change the password for administrator once there. If your still stuck after that, as a last resort, they DO have programs that are self booting that will allow you to change the passowrds for any account on an ntfs system. i cant think of its name offhand, but i know a buddy of mine at work has it, if you need it PM me and i will get its name and a place to download it for you

good luck

 

[McMadman]

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

this is probably what you're talking about to reset the password.

WARNING - If you have encrypted files using EFS they will be unaccessable after changing the password.