help needed

my daughter didnt access her pc for over 2 weeks and her password has
changed,a freind has told me to press f8 wen the pc i booting to get onto
home page but the pc is still asking for administrator password or my
daughters. Each 1 we dont know can any1 help

gholff wrote:

> my daughter didnt access her pc for over 2 weeks and her password has
> changed,a freind has told me to press f8 wen the pc i booting to get
> onto home page but the pc is still asking for administrator password
> or my daughters. Each 1 we dont know can any1 help

In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly
tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to
the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not
work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden
Administrator account. The default password is a blank.

In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen,
do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in
"Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up
Windows.

If you changed the password from the default blank (Home) and don't
remember it (or have Pro and don't remember it), use NTpasswd to change
the built-in Administrator account's password to a blank. Then log into
that account and use the User Accounts applet to set passwords to
something you will remember.

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

Malke
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