Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > URGENT IT HELP NEEDED

[bradders]

HELP!!

have windows XP home and set up a user password, trouble is I have forgotten it!! and the hint doesnt help - EEK! it now goes to log in screen but cant get any furter.

what can I do to bypass this/reset password? Laymen terms please....currently logged on from work but wifey very cross specially as I am away until Weds...

Thanks
Paul

[rockhopper]

Used to be able to press escape to bypass it then just delete everything with a .pwl extension. Thats under 95 etc, i havent tried it under XP.

[Murray Mint]

Sorry to say but your out of luck unless you can get your hands on some utils from the internet, maybe this one? http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html look around the end of the page for the download.

Murray Mint

[TP]

l0phtcrack is a 'utility' I've used to break into NT 4.0 before. I'm less hands on these days so I haven't used anything like it recently.

You'll need a boot disk that can read whatever filesystem you have formatted your system partition with. The default is NTFS which can't be read from a DOS boot disk so you'll need an NTFS bootdisk if you've used it.

Hope that helps.

[JPM]

Originally posted by rockhopper
Used to be able to press escape to bypass it then just delete everything with a .pwl extension. Thats under 95 etc, i havent tried it under XP.

OLDSKOOL!

[bradders]

cheers guys - panic over, seems she could get into other user accounts so reset the password from there.....bloomin technophobes!!

[rockhopper]

Originally posted by JPM

OLDSKOOL!

I should never have uninstalled 3.1!

[Glyn]

bring back dos

[Loz]

Originally posted by Glyn
bring back dos

DR-DOS, not that MS crap.