WindowXP Help!!! Forgot Admin login!
 

I have a computer here at the office that I need to setup but no one knows the admin login. Is there a way of bypassing that so I can log in and set up the system?

It's a P4 running Windows XP.

Reinstall - if you need it 'setup' do you mean it's not been in use?

I would reinstall XP but I don't have the original disk. When I mean setup I mean set it up as a customer service computer. Install software and other shit like that. Not setup as in from scratch.

Just re-install windows... you don't have much choice.

bittorrent is your friend then ;)

that really really really sucks...

There's a few password breakers out there on the net, but only about one or two which are not just a pile of spyware designed to screw you up. Be very careful if you try to download something like that.

insert a linux cd and you can use the data on the harddrive....

Have you ever used that?

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

i have used this in the past tho it is less than helpful with xp sp2 and hashed sam file.

looks like there are some new releases since my last use, also its free =]

default for win2k is

user: administrator
pw: null (ie. nothing)


i dunno bout xp though

If you start up in SafeMode, doesn't it take you in automatically and then all you have to do is go change it?

sorry, I thought it was something that simple.