hey everyone,

alright so i've got windows xp. i had to put a password on because i was on a network while at school and today the password ran out so i have to renew it, but i'm sure you can guess my problem by now...i forgot my password so i'm locked out of my computer hehehe... i feel like a complete idiot here. does anyone know a way to get around this...i'm hoping that there is a way because i had some important stuff on there. i figure worse comes to worse i have to eat my losses, but is there a secret back door kinda way to get in...i know someone here knows...

was an administrator password not created when xp was installing?

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds was an administrator password not created when xp was installing?

no...its just my personal computer. i had it hooked up to my roomates comupters up at college, but its just a personal computer now...

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Originally posted by Floorfiller no...its just my personal computer. i had it hooked up to my roomates comupters up at college, but its just a personal computer now...

yeah, but as your installing windows xp, after you enter in your cd-key it will request a administrator password, which will never expire. if you can remember this you can log in as administrator and then change the settings for the account where your files are stored, and remove the password

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds yeah, but as your installing windows xp, after you enter in your cd-key it will request a administrator password, which will never expire. if you can remember this you can log in as administrator and then change the settings for the account where your files are stored, and remove the password

hmmmm...i'll have to look into that...thanks for the tip...for username would i just put in administrator???

asminstrator, or what ever the correct spelling is, also you could hook up your harddrive to another pc and see if you can brose the my documents folder from there and copy its contents across

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds asminstrator, or what ever the correct spelling is, also you could hook up your harddrive to another pc and see if you can brose the my documents folder from there and copy its contents across

alright cool...i was already thinking of something to this extent...i'll give it a try. i can only hope that i can remember the admin password hehehe...

hey man it worked...thanks a lot for your help...you the man...

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Originally posted by Floorfiller hey man it worked...thanks a lot for your help...you the man...

i know.....


glad all is sorted

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