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There are lots of simple way to access/reset your password protected your User account on your Windows XP system and you forget the password to Log on.
Way 5 : Safe Mode option.
- Reboot your system..
- Press F8 before the Windows boot screen appears. Do not press F5 as used on the NT/9x ser of Windows. You will be be prompted with a boot options menu.
- Select the Start Windows in Safe Mode option.
- Click through several self-explanatory screens until your reach the familiar 'Welcome' screen. You will not be able to change this mode even in Display options, while Windows is running in Safe Mode.
- Find the icon for the Administrator user. If the default settings of your system haven't been changed, there should be no password for this account.
- The Safe Mode Welcome screen might display some of the other users on your system.
- Login as the admin.
- Press Yes at the prompt asking if you would like to continue using Safe Mode.
- Continue on to the User Settings control panel. Here you can change any of the other passwords for user on the machine. Make any changes you want.
- Reboot your computer.Now boot-up the computer will startup normally.
- Login as the user for which you set the password.
- If it doesn't work above, you can try to use professional support recommendation OPHCrack (freeware) to crack your windows password without erasing anything.
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Way 4 : Reset password from another administrator account.
If you can't log on to Windows by using a particular user account, but you can log on to another account that has administrative credentials, follow these steps on how to do the trick:
- Log on to Windows by using an administrator account that has a password that you remember. You may need to start WinXP in safe mode.
- Click Start, and then click Run.
- In the Open box, type “control userpasswords2″, and then click OK.
- Click the user account that you forgot the password for, and then click Reset Password.
- Type a new password in both the New password and the Confirm new password boxes, and then click OK.
Way 3 : Windows Password Unlocker.
You can Reset Windows Password with Windows Password Unlocker.
- Download Windows Password Unlocker from this Link Download Windows Password Unlocker
- Decompress the Windows password unlocker and note that there is an .ISO image file. Burn the image file onto an blank CD with the burner freely supported by Password Unlocker.
- Insert the newly created CD into the locked computer and re-boot it from the CD drive.
- After launched the CD, a window pop up with all your account names.If you have several accounts, select one of the accounts that you have forgotten its password to reset it. Just one press, you have removed the password.
Way 2 : Using Command Prompt*
We can use command prompt about password reset trick
- Log in with any valid account.
- Bring up the command prompt.
Type: net user - You get a list of accounts
Type: net user Administrator *
Type: net user (any account on that list) *
Ex: net user senthil
3. It prompts for a password. Enter one, then enter it again when prompted to confirm.
Now, try to log on as ‘Administrator’ with your new password.
*Please note that this might not work on a LIMITED account
Way 1 : RESET DISK.
Reset password with RESET DISK if you made before.
Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to recover forgotten password by using “Reset Disk”. If you created a Password Reset Disk in past, you can use that disk to reset the password.
To know more about it, please visit following links: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305478
Additional Tips :
- You can access the Administrator account through the login prompt without logging into safe mode. If the computer utilizes the welcome screen instead of the standard NT domain login prompt, you can press Ctrl + Alt + Del twice to get to the login prompt. This is only true if you are running Windows XP Professional Edition. Windows XP Home Edition will also allow you to use this method to log on.
- Some users are smart enough to password protect their Administrator account when they install windows. If that's the case, you'll have to know that password in order for this method to work.
- There is a way to crack the windows "SAM" and system files. To retrieve the original passwords Monitor, you need a program such as LC5 installed on a computer, and the SAM file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\config. If LC5 is not installed on the computer that you forgot to, you need to install it with a disk through DOS, not Windows, because as soon as the hard drive starts windows it is using the file so you can't copy it.
- The SysInternals ERD Commander product used to change the admin password seems to have been discontinued, however there are many other options out there for resetting the password so long as you are willing to spend a little money.
- Boot from the CD and select the locksmith option to change whatever password you like.
- A much simpler method is simply to rename or delete the SAM file (renaming is safer). For this you need to boot the box using some other operating system on a CD and then mount the drive (otherwise Windows locks the SAM file and won't let you touch it). NTFSDOS is also a good utility for this purpose. Find the SAM file and change the first character. After you reboot, all the accounts are still there, but they all have null passwords.
- Note: if you rename the SAM file on XP SP2, when you reboot, XP fails to initialize and forces you to reboot in safe mode. However when you boot into safe mode you get the same message, so don't try this method on XP SP2.
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