admin password

[Guest]

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I was given a computer by someone who passed. He had a password setup to
logon to xp (after ctrl-alt-del sequence). Is there anyway around this. I
tried the safe mode w/ no password as admin, this did not work.

pls help.

thanks

rick

 

[Malke]

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rlbo wrote:

> I was given a computer by someone who passed. He had a password setup
> to
> logon to xp (after ctrl-alt-del sequence). Is there anyway around
> this. I tried the safe mode w/ no password as admin, this did not
> work.


Use NTpasswd to change the Administrator password to a blank. Or be
really smart and format/clean install Windows. You don't know what kind
of cruft is on that machine.

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

Malke
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