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Name: Randy
Date: August 9, 2001 at 15:02:21 Pacific
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I lost the password for Windows ME and can't get into my original system thing.All i can do is get onto the de-fault and go on the net.How do I fix this problem?



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Name: www
Date: August 9, 2001 at 15:10:48 Pacific
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search for *.pwl and rename them to .old
reboot and when prompted for a password leave it blank and hit ok if you don't want a password.
if you can't get into search
look for files with the extension .pwl
in c:\windows and rename them to .old
this will remove all windows passwords.



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