XP Passwords, This sucks - please help

Well, I'm at lunch at the moment, but I'm going back to check it here in a minute. The first thing on the list you sent was the boot disk thingy I was talking about that "offline password recovery" thing. Hopefully it will have worked when I try it in about 20 minutes.

Otherwise, I'll move down the list.

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Thanks man...

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You nerds are always so technical...

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Peace.

 

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LOL.

HEY, IT WORKED!!!!!!!

I type this logged in as administrator with no password. Very sweet.

 

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and now, after joining a made up work group and then rejoining the domain, i'm back in... and master of my domain.

thanks for your support.

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what a pain in my ass.

Ass pain, I dub thee relieved.

Hehe.

 

:m: Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet.

 

what workded, if it was the booty thingy pass a link, you know in the spirite of sharing

 

Me... share a link to everything you need to know about xp passwords?

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That site is also linked at this great XP repair site, http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

Saved my bacon a few times.

 

Hmm lol try -net use \\wes\IPC4 "" /u:""- and then -net view \\wes"

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It could work but it won't do you any good. Can't you format it again using Windows 98 Boot 3 1/2" disk? Or detach the disk, take it to another computer and then format it, bring it back to the comp and install win all from the beginning.

 

KS

Yeah I could have installed over the top of it, but like I said I had just spent days configuring the stupid thing. I certainly didn't want to redo it again.

Again though, that boot disk doodad worked all kickass and whatnot. It reset my password, I left the specified doman and was able to rejoin no sweat. Sure it took a day or something, but I beat it with the help of that boot disk. It was gratifying to win! Hehe.

Ack.

Seems like all I do nowadays is fight microsoft's software, trying to make it do what it's supposed to. It's amazing to me the shape in which many people use their computers. I was trying to put in a wired/wireless network at my neighbor's, and they sort of forgot to tell me that the PC to which the printer is attached, the one they need to share, kernel faults on opening any explorer window like for instance, control panel - yes even in safe mode. Gotta love windows ME edition. Bah.

This is typical of what I see in my networking/computer fixing adventures at people's homes.

 

If you come across this problem often and don't have the cash to fork out for winternals tools (ERD commander etc), then try this :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/austrumi/

A handy little bootable linux distro which enables the changing or wiping of windows passwords (including the admin password).