NEED HELP- lost my password!!!

[Ãskallin]

I've lost my password into my other computer and i desperatly need help to get into it...
And no the administrator account is woth a password to and i can't remember it either...

so any help would be great! I really need to get into my computer to do a school project.

My computer uses Microsoft Windows XP

[Dinner]

Which is why I never use those passwords.

[Ãskallin]

Thanks alot

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Which is why I never use those passwords.

i use paper myself - and if i do use passwords i use paper to right them down on.
Dont worry Iskallin i'm sure a real computer genius will pass by soon
how was the rotting shark(corrected) meat this year in Iceland? - i will try it one day

[Dinner]

Short of finding some master pass word from MSFT the only thing I can think of is installing a new version of windows. I'm hardly an expert though.

[Ãskallin]

It's okay. (the rotting shark not whale) But i really hope that a real computer geniusturns up... I NEED to get to that project by tomorrow...

[Mercator]

Boot from a bootdisk/bootable CD, format and re-install...

But what sort of password did you use? Something totally random or something you'd at least have a chance of remembering? Why not just try out a whole bunch of stuff.

[Dinner]

Do you have a friend with a computer? If so you can hook your drive up as a slave drive to his computer and then get the info off that way.

[MosesPresley]

Logon to a guest account.

[Ãskallin]

Don't have a guest account, and the computer is a laptop...

And i'd rather not have to reinstall windows... My scholl projects are in there!

[Kassiopeia]

Maybe you can override the logon by going in in Safe Mode? You need to hit a key while the computer boots up to do it, the usual keys to do it are F5 or F8. You need to do it once the BIOS (the screen with system info etc.) has shown up but before Windows starts loading.

But really, the password protection is there for a reason...

[Ãskallin]

Ttried that didn't work... Thanks anyway all ofyou guys

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Look for some sort of XP password hacking tool on google or google groups.

[duke o' york]

Sure it isn't "password"?

[alva]

What Jimmy said, there's alot of those to be found.