I've never tried it, but how about doing a 'Repair' install. Will that allow you to set a password? Sorry, I do not check for private messages

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I've done the procedure before with no problem probably because I used it in conjunction with Daniel Petri's article Speaking of parallel reinstal... I don't think it's warranted because lots of work would be involved afterward (the customer were cheapstake) :-) i_XpUser

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On the logon screen, hold CTRL+ALT and press DEL twice. Then as the user put Administrator Leave the password blank.

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Two ways to sign on. NOTE: If the hidden admin account (Safe Mode) is password protected you will need that password to use this procedure. Boot to the sign in screen. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL Release Press CTRL-ALT-DEL Release In the box that pops up type Administrator for the User name leave the password blank and click OK or press Enter. Windows will boot the hidden admin account. Open Control Panel---User Accounts. Open the account you are locked out of. Click Remove Password//Change password Close out the open windows and Reboot. If that is the only account you have windows will boot to your desktop. If there is more than one account just click the previously locked account. NOTE: If you can break into your computer using this method you may want to make a Password for the Hidden Admin account while in Safe Mode. Jot the P/W down and put it in a safe place in the event you need it again. This procedure only works if you can enter safe mode thru the hidden Admin Account 1-Boot to Safe Mode by tapping the F8 key while booting 2-Choose safe mode, Press Enter 3-Select operating system, Press Enter 4-Click Administrator Account 5-Windows is running in Safe Mode, Click YES 6-At the Safe Mode Desktop, click, Start, Control Panel 7-Double click User Accounts, Here you can delete accounts, delete/change passwords ETC. 8-When done Close all Windows 9-Restart Computer You will need to do this if the hidden Admin account is password protected. AUSTRUMI BOOT CD Austrumi is a Linux bootable CD for recovering/Blanking NT passwords. The CD also performs other functions as well but we will only cover blanking passwords. Get the ISO image from the following site (Scroll down the page to find the download)and burn the image to a CD. http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm Once the image is burned to a CD follow these instructions. Set the CD/ROM as first boot device and boot the computer. After Linux loads all it's neat stuff there will be a short pause and you will see this boot: You only have seconds to type so type in nt_pass It should look like this boot: nt_pass Press ENTER select partition by number type (1) and ENTER Windows/system32/config Press ENTER select which part of the registry to load (1) is default Press ENTER What to do? (1) is default Press ENTER Select (!) to quit or use list of users, ADMINISTRATOR is default, If that is the choice. Press ENTER Type (*) to blank password Press ENTER do you really wish to change? Type (y) Press ENTER If there are no more names to blank type (!) Press ENTER What to do? type (q) press ENTER About to write files back do it? type (y) press ENTER NOTE: A disk fixup will now be done may take some time wait for it to finish. EDIT COMPLETE Here you can try again if it failed to complete (n) is default press ENTER. remove CD from the drive. CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart the computer. A CHKDSK will be run, (you may not see it run) Admin p/w is now blank and you can use the below procedure to gain access to the Admin account and all other accounts> Boot to the sign in screen. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL Release Press CTRL-ALT-DEL Release In the box that pops up type Administrator for the User name leave the password blank and click OK or press Enter. Windows will boot the hidden admin account. Open Control Panel---User Accounts. Open the account you are locked out of. Click Remove Password//Change password Close out the open windows and Reboot. If that is the only account you have windows will boot to your desktop. If there is more than one account just click the previously locked account.

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