Dear people, because I keep messing about with my computer, sometimes the best way to sort out the problems is a clean install. It happens that with so many password changes I forgot it. Is there a way to sot this out without resorting to the good clean install that takes ages to put everything back as it was. Please, are there any sugestions? Thank you in advance and please help. Astropicachu. P.S. The jumper in the motherboard that resets the password, does that only to the BIOS/CMOS password or to the windows as well?

Go in under safe mode , login into administrator with blank password, In safe mode , go to control panel , and user accounts , there you have an option to change your account , click your account and change your password , and then reboot into normal mode and type in the changed password.

P.S. I set all my XP passwords to Blank. Easier to remember that way.

Dave (sorry to post hijack), i've still got these damn password boxes, anymore thoughts?

Hi Dave, thanks for your reply but when I go in in safe mode the system still asks for the Administrator password and it does not accept a blank one because an Administrator password was also set up. And I cannot remember any of them. What about the jumper? Does it clean them all or just the CMOS/BIOS password? Please, any sugestions would be appreciated. Thanks to all.

Apparently this will work. I never tried it so I dont know...worth a look tho. Booting to safe mode wont work...I tried that when I messed up my settings....lol...worked all night trying to get in (brother set up my pc) only to find he didn't set pass. http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/76377.html The jumper will just reset bios password not windows. Bios don't know windows. Good luck

Message for Hooner. Try this. You can adjust the way your XP looks (Including the login box, or the users loging box) by downloading and installing the Microsoft PowerToys. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads