locked out of my user account, can only access as guest

Hi- thank you all so much in advance for your help. i tried to find a
similar question on this board but while some come close mine seems kind of
unique so i hope that is the case and i am not asking a redundant question.
even though this is going to sound like the most idiot thing you ever heard--
but i am really at a loss!
Here is my problem: Every once-in-a-while my computer asks me to change my
password. which is annoying but not enough i suppose where i ever thought to
do anything about it-- so, whenever it asks, i change it with a couple clicks
of the enter key so essentially the password is blank. well yesterday it did
this again but i accidentally hit one or two of the keys around the 'enter'
key which it accepted before i could stop it and of course now i have no clue
what i hit. i have tried combinations of surrounding keys but no luck thus
far. So, i can only get into my computer if i login as 'guest'. the problem
is that i have a whole bunch of really impt documents in my Documents folder
and of course i can no longer access it!! among other things. I am
panicking bc i am in the legal profession and i NEED to be able to get in!!
and perfect timing it's xmas holiday... so, short of taking this computer
into some shop after stores reopen is there ANYTHING i can do on my own?
with sincere thanks again.

boot into safe mode using "Administrator" account!
this password is usually blank, also.]

reset or delete password for your normal user account.

"becks" wrote:

> Hi- thank you all so much in advance for your help. i tried to find a
> similar question on this board but while some come close mine seems kind of
> unique so i hope that is the case and i am not asking a redundant question.
> even though this is going to sound like the most idiot thing you ever heard--
> but i am really at a loss!
> Here is my problem: Every once-in-a-while my computer asks me to change my
> password. which is annoying but not enough i suppose where i ever thought to
> do anything about it-- so, whenever it asks, i change it with a couple clicks
> of the enter key so essentially the password is blank. well yesterday it did
> this again but i accidentally hit one or two of the keys around the 'enter'
> key which it accepted before i could stop it and of course now i have no clue
> what i hit. i have tried combinations of surrounding keys but no luck thus
> far. So, i can only get into my computer if i login as 'guest'. the problem
> is that i have a whole bunch of really impt documents in my Documents folder
> and of course i can no longer access it!! among other things. I am
> panicking bc i am in the legal profession and i NEED to be able to get in!!
> and perfect timing it's xmas holiday... so, short of taking this computer
> into some shop after stores reopen is there ANYTHING i can do on my own?
> with sincere thanks again.

Dixonian69
i am MUCH obliged-- truly immense thanks. happy holidays, rgds-

"Dixonian69" wrote:

> boot into safe mode using "Administrator" account!
> this password is usually blank, also.]
>
> reset or delete password for your normal user account.
>
> "becks" wrote:
>
> > Hi- thank you all so much in advance for your help. i tried to find a
> > similar question on this board but while some come close mine seems kind of
> > unique so i hope that is the case and i am not asking a redundant question.
> > even though this is going to sound like the most idiot thing you ever heard--
> > but i am really at a loss!
> > Here is my problem: Every once-in-a-while my computer asks me to change my
> > password. which is annoying but not enough i suppose where i ever thought to
> > do anything about it-- so, whenever it asks, i change it with a couple clicks
> > of the enter key so essentially the password is blank. well yesterday it did
> > this again but i accidentally hit one or two of the keys around the 'enter'
> > key which it accepted before i could stop it and of course now i have no clue
> > what i hit. i have tried combinations of surrounding keys but no luck thus
> > far. So, i can only get into my computer if i login as 'guest'. the problem
> > is that i have a whole bunch of really impt documents in my Documents folder
> > and of course i can no longer access it!! among other things. I am
> > panicking bc i am in the legal profession and i NEED to be able to get in!!
> > and perfect timing it's xmas holiday... so, short of taking this computer
> > into some shop after stores reopen is there ANYTHING i can do on my own?
> > with sincere thanks again.

You're Welcome!!
Happy Holidays to you!!
There is such thing as a creating a password recovery/reset disk which you
can hide away somewhere.

How to create and use a password reset disk for a computer that is not a
domain member in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305478/

"becks" wrote:

> Dixonian69
> i am MUCH obliged-- truly immense thanks. happy holidays, rgds-
>
> "Dixonian69" wrote:
>
> > boot into safe mode using "Administrator" account!
> > this password is usually blank, also.]
> >
> > reset or delete password for your normal user account.
> >
> > "becks" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi- thank you all so much in advance for your help. i tried to find a
> > > similar question on this board but while some come close mine seems kind of
> > > unique so i hope that is the case and i am not asking a redundant question.
> > > even though this is going to sound like the most idiot thing you ever heard--
> > > but i am really at a loss!
> > > Here is my problem: Every once-in-a-while my computer asks me to change my
> > > password. which is annoying but not enough i suppose where i ever thought to
> > > do anything about it-- so, whenever it asks, i change it with a couple clicks
> > > of the enter key so essentially the password is blank. well yesterday it did
> > > this again but i accidentally hit one or two of the keys around the 'enter'
> > > key which it accepted before i could stop it and of course now i have no clue
> > > what i hit. i have tried combinations of surrounding keys but no luck thus
> > > far. So, i can only get into my computer if i login as 'guest'. the problem
> > > is that i have a whole bunch of really impt documents in my Documents folder
> > > and of course i can no longer access it!! among other things. I am
> > > panicking bc i am in the legal profession and i NEED to be able to get in!!
> > > and perfect timing it's xmas holiday... so, short of taking this computer
> > > into some shop after stores reopen is there ANYTHING i can do on my own?
> > > with sincere thanks again.