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#1 2009-10-03 7:29 pm
- sturner
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Resetting an Administrator login password
Ok, I think I already know the answer to this one, however, I'd like verification.
Is there any way to reset an Administer password in Windows XP, like you can in OS X?
I can't remember my password. 
Since there is only a single account I've got it rigged so that I don't have to login. Any easy way to make this work? Or should I just nuke and pave?
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#2 2009-10-03 10:50 pm
- dv
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Re: Resetting an Administrator login password
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0 … asp?ID=305
Let me know if it works. Sounds freaky.
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#3 2009-10-04 11:23 pm
- sturner
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Re: Resetting an Administrator login password
I tried the free method listed. It might work somewhere, but I couldn't get it to work. When the system rolled to the repair mode, nothing matched the written description of that link. So I reverted to the 3rd party software solution, which worked in a very satisfactory manner.
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