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XP Pro password expired !
Name: Rence Date: April 26, 2004 at 11:24:02 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: P3 T450
Comment:
My sister-in-law has a PC with XP Pro running and never changed her password when it was expiring and now she can't log on. I there any way to get around this to reset the password and log in ?
Name: rayok Date: April 26, 2004 at 11:44:45 Pacific
Reply:
I used the disk from here today
http://ebcd.pcministry.com/
Techy n Welsh
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Response Number 2
Name: keef444 Date: April 26, 2004 at 11:45:52 Pacific
Reply:
Yep, try starting in safe mode and logon as Administrator, in the Run box type: control userpasswords2.
From here u should be able to reset the password.
Hope this helps
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Response Number 3
Name: Rence Date: April 26, 2004 at 11:50:48 Pacific
Reply:
How can I log in as Administrator if I don't have the password ? Is there a default ? Or is the default null ???
Thanks, Rence
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Response Number 4
Name: keef444 Date: April 26, 2004 at 12:01:21 Pacific
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Administrator password should be null (unless the person who installed XP was daft enuf to make one - if so, u can't get into Recovery Console either !!)
All is not lost if a password has been set, as a password reset disk can then be used.
GoodLuck
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Response Number 5
Name: Don Arnett Date: April 26, 2004 at 12:58:37 Pacific
Reply:
I'm not an XP expert, but wouldn't leaving the Administrator password as NULL be the daft thing to do??
Wouldn't that be equivalent to not setting a root password on a UNIX/Linux system?
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Response Number 6
Name: aosclay Date: April 26, 2004 at 15:30:52 Pacific
Reply:
yes, there are some bugs out there that try to exploit weak administrator passwords such as:
<blank> 1234 123456 admin
etc...etc...
But, I will promise you that there are A LOT of blank admin passwords out there.
interesting trivia: Some unix systems don't use ROOT at all. ROOT has been renamed to "something else". Even ROOT is not always ROOT.
best geek t-shirt: I AM ROOT, OBEY ME!
AOSCLAY
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Response Number 7
Name: Martin Crandall Date: April 26, 2004 at 21:29:48 Pacific
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Worst case scenario, Go to www.bootdisk.com and DL the "startup disk" from them.
Boot to the "startup disk"
Within your C:\WINNT(Windows)\System32\Config\ you will find a file called SAM (with NO extension). Delete it, all passwords for all users have now been elinminated.
SAM = System Accounts Manager
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