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Old 01-05-2006, 04:16 AM
Malke
 
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Default Re: Retrieving an Administrator Password or Changing a Lilited Account to Admin

mc-merc wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having some trouble with my home computer. I am the sole user of
> my computer running Windows XP Professional and, initially, my own
> account was Administrator type. I recently changed it to Limited
> thinking that it would prevent unwanted programs and viruses from self
> installing on my system. Now I need to do some system changes and I
> find that can't do them on my own account, of course. I press
> Ctrl+Alt+Del twice to get the Administrator account to come up but,
> incredibly, it has been set up with a password! I spoke to the vendor
> but they are not sure what may have happened, or how a password made
> it into the setup process. There are no other user accounts set up,
> limited or admin-type, so it's just me (limited) and the system
> Administrator, with all its capabilities, but out of reach.
>

Boot with NTpasswd and change the Administrator password to a blank.
Then log in and make whatever changes you want.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Malke
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