anyone know how to bypass XP password on startup?
 

My Brother in law has an older machine that has XP on it and he wants to give it to his mom. The problem is he can't remember the password to get into XP. We know how to bypass it from a command prompt but XP won't let us get to a command prompt without going thru windows first.

Is there a way to get to a C Prompt without going thru XP?

try username administrator and password administrator there is a default admin account setup this should work

what is this floppy disk thing it speaks of?

those didn't work... anyone got anything else?

startup in safe mode ( tap f8 while loading ) create a new user in safe mode, then restart and use that user

perhaps

f8 will also get you to command prompt i think

boot up in safe mode, go in as admin

go into control panel, then USER ACCOUNTS. select user and remove password.

restart

that should work.

Smokey... it's an XP pro. Even in safe mode it still asks for a user and pass. I fucking hate XP. I'll never upgrade from 2Kpro.

Smokey if anyone can do this.. it's you.


THINK HARDER!!!

Find the factory reset button on the box(if it has one) or use the "reset to factory" disc.

Then start from scratch.

:bowdown

my confidence level and fear of Smokey is dropping.

bump..... i also want to know how to do this... :)

Redshoe,

There's a software that, if burnt to a cd as a boot disk, can help you solve this issue. I can look up its name for you later. I've used it before and it worked like a charm.

is it hiren?
bookmarked this thread...
gonna wait for you guys to remember that software...

Found it, here you go guys:

Petter Nordahl-Hagen's Offline NT Password & Registry Editor - A great boot CD/Floppy that can reset the local administrator's password:

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

Works like a charm.

Let us know if that works.
I might have to save a copy just incase.

Reset the jumper on the mobo. It clears out the CMOS password.

discharge---cleanup CMOS info.

something they used back in the 1860's. Looks something like this:

http://www.inkman.net/images/old_phone.gif