{"id":34,"date":"2007-08-18T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynelarose.is-a-geek.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-08-18T07:34:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T12:34:56","slug":"how-to-get-into-windows-xp-when-you-have-forgotten-the-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"How to get into Windows XP when you have forgotten the password!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call from my uncle one day claiming that he could not log on to his computer. Easy fix, I thought to myself, as I logged on to the Admin account and reset the passwords for both the admin and his own account. However, my heart sank as I found out that despite writing out both passwords correctly I was <strong>UNABLE TO LOG ON TO EITHER ACCOUNT!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I searched on the net and tried out various methods for hours with no success. I was about to reload his system when I decided to try the Windows XP CD Repair method.<\/p>\n<p>The short version of this method is:<br \/>\n1. Start a Windows XP repair.<br \/>\n2. After the second stage of the repair, look out for the &#8220;Installing Devices&#8221; message in the lower right hand corner. Press Shift-F10<br \/>\n3. You now have a admin level command line!  Type &#8220;control userpasswords2&#8221; to get access to reset the passwords!<\/p>\n<p>This method finally got me into his system to reset the account passwords.  It saved me a world of trouble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymond.cc\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/22\/reset-or-change-administrator-password-on-windows-xp\/\">Detailed Instructions of the Windows XP Method CD Repair<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>The methods that did NOT work for me:<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.eunet.no\/pnordahl\/ntpasswd\/\">Offline NT Password and Registry Editor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ophcrack.sourceforge.net\/\">Ophcrack Live CD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call from my uncle one day claiming that he could not log on to his computer. Easy fix, I thought to myself, as I logged on to the Admin account and reset the passwords for both the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/?p=34\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geekythings.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}