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Forgot Password - Admin. does not work..help
Posted by Fred Kelly on February 7th, 2004


I upgraded from w98 to XP Professional recently on my home desktop. I
obviously wasn't paying attention since I can't remember either my user
name or password. I've tried typing in "administrator" and leaving the
password blank - no luck there - I reloaded XP from the disk and it skips
past the collecting information and dynamic update portions of the
installation, so that I don't get the chance to input an new username and
password. Needless to say this is very fustrating.....

Does anyone have a fix for this problem, which I see is quite common.
Apple computers are looking better and better to me lately....

Thanx

Posted by Jupiter Jones [MVP] on February 7th, 2004


Fred;
See if this helps:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

There are lots of reasons I have heard people use to switch to Apple,
but this is a new one for me.
If you feel this may be a good reason to switch, I can only conclude
from your statement that Apple has no security.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...oups/setup.asp
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Fred Kelly" <f-kelly1@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:c85701c3edb5$e8a3ac90$a601280a@phx.gbl...
I upgraded from w98 to XP Professional recently on my home desktop. I
obviously wasn't paying attention since I can't remember either my
user
name or password. I've tried typing in "administrator" and leaving
the
password blank - no luck there - I reloaded XP from the disk and it
skips
past the collecting information and dynamic update portions of the
installation, so that I don't get the chance to input an new username
and
password. Needless to say this is very fustrating.....

Does anyone have a fix for this problem, which I see is quite common.
Apple computers are looking better and better to me lately....

Thanx



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