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silviama71   10-06-2009 at 05:54:01 PM

its a dell windows xp and i cant remember my password i tried f8 and it just restarts and takes me back to the windows log in...so i decided to reinstall windows ....but by any chance can i retrieve my password from my desktop?

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overclockingrocks   10-06-2009 at 06:41:37 PM

go download ERD Commander 2005 it's a rescue disk burn it to a CD and boot from it. It has a program on it called NT Locksmith that will allow you to change the admin password or the password on any user account for that matter. Then you can log in using the changed password and voila there ya go

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