FALSE ALARM!! The first new password that I put in there is the one
that took...even tho the system was giving me an error message, it
took and I'm able to access my Administrator account. Scared the
hay-hell out of me! lol

>I'm in a bad fix ... I can't find my Administrator password!
>
>I logged into my Administrator account and went to the Control Panel
>... from there I went to User Accounts and clicked on my Administrator
>account and selected the option to change passwords. A window popped
>up with four blank fields in it ... the first field said to input my
>user password (which I did) ... the next field said to input my new
>password (which I did) the third field said to repeat the new password
>(which I did) and the fourth field said to create a password hint ...
>which I entered.
>
>After doing all that I hit the change button and I got a box that
>popped up and said that my original password was wrong ... I did
>everything all over again several times and the same things
>happened...now I can't find my Administrator password and I'm locked
>out of the administrator side of the computer...PLEASE HELP.
>
>>Yes you can reset or change the administrators password. Reset is done via
>>user and groups management. Changing the password is done while logged on as
>>the user and using ctrl-alt-delete to change the password. If a users
>>password is "reset" the user will not be able to access any EFS files the
>>user encrypted. If the password is changed back to the original password
>>before it was reset then the user can decrypt the EFS files again. This was
>>done to prevent an administrator from resetting a users password in order to
>>logon as the user to access their EFS encrypted files and is why you see the
>>warning. --- Steve
>>
>>
>>"Jerry" <clancy@eartlink.com> wrote in message
>>news:soctl1llbua2tenf1lqedtu3j9cidee2tq@4ax.com. ..
>>>I run XP Professional on my computer and I'm the only person who uses
>>> this computer. I have a small hard drive, so XP uses the FAT32 file
>>> system. I can't encrypt files using FAT32 as can be done with the
>>> NTFS file syatem so I don't have any password issues to deal with here
>>> ... I do have a third party program that I use to encrypt files tho.
>>> I've recently changed the Administrator's name to something else.
>>>
>>> That's the background ... now for the question:
>>>
>>> Is it safe for me to change the Administrator's (now named something
>>> else) password? To do this I make my own account part of the
>>> Administrator's Group and then try to change the Administrator's
>>> password from my account. When I do this I get a warning that I may
>>> make changes that are irreparable such as losing passwords, etc.
>>> Is this safe to do? Can I change the Administrator's password on a
>>> regular basis or is this something best left alone once set?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any good advice.
>>