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Help - my new laptop forgot login PWFor some strange reason my new HP laptop forgot the Windows XP login. I'm
told there is a way to get around the login password but what is it? Need help, TIA Jim Jim wrote:
> For some strange reason my new HP laptop forgot the Windows XP login. In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly> I'm told there is a way to get around the login password but what is > it? tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden Administrator account. The default password is a blank. In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen, do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows. If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the built-in Administrator account's password to a blank. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords that you will remember and make other desired changes. Malke I'm running XP Home. I have a second Administrator account named wxyz with a
PW of 1234 (examples). I did boot into Safe mode and re-entered my original PW in my wxyz account. I did this several times but Windows would still not let me log-in. I finally decided to change the PW to something other then 1234 and then I could log-in!! Why did I have to change the PW? TIA Show quoteHide quote "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:u80PaPUAHHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Jim wrote: > >> For some strange reason my new HP laptop forgot the Windows XP login. >> I'm told there is a way to get around the login password but what is >> it? > > In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly > tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to > the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not > work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden > Administrator account. The default password is a blank. > > In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen, > do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in > "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up > Windows. > > If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or > have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the > built-in Administrator account's password to a blank. > > http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ > > Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords > that you will remember and make other desired changes. > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User Jim wrote:
> I'm running XP Home. I have a second Administrator account named wxyz I have no idea. Perhaps you had caps lock on. There is simply no way for> with a PW of 1234 (examples). > > I did boot into Safe mode and re-entered my original PW in my wxyz > account. I did this several times but Windows would still not let me > log-in. > > I finally decided to change the PW to something other then 1234 and > then I could log-in!! > > Why did I have to change the PW? me to tell. In any case, I'm glad you got it sorted. Malke Problem solved - the Scroll Lock key on my new laptop was ON and it remapped
several letter keys to numbers. Never saw this on a desktop computer. Thanks to all. Show quoteHide quote "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:OoscjMVAHHA.4472@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Jim wrote: > >> I'm running XP Home. I have a second Administrator account named wxyz >> with a PW of 1234 (examples). >> >> I did boot into Safe mode and re-entered my original PW in my wxyz >> account. I did this several times but Windows would still not let me >> log-in. >> >> I finally decided to change the PW to something other then 1234 and >> then I could log-in!! >> >> Why did I have to change the PW? > > I have no idea. Perhaps you had caps lock on. There is simply no way for > me to tell. In any case, I'm glad you got it sorted. > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User 
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