http://infoman.co.ke/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=91&func=view&catid=4&id=7

at the link find a nice tutorial on how to reset winxp password the easy way—hope u can get a portable cd rom

From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:03 PM
To: Skunkworks Forum
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] forgot xp password

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:

Use Hirens boot cd, run mini xp, download and run lcp.exe and get ur password. Alternatively, you can reset your password using some tool whose name I don't recall at the moment.

He said "no cd-rom" :-)

Must he invest in an external CD-ROM in order to recover?

During installation of Windows, there is always a section for creating an Administrator account. What I have found out over time is that some installers leave the password for this account blank!

So you could try ctrl+alt+delete and get a login Window. Type Administrator as username with a blank password and see if that saves the day. Else, get a CD-ROM and do as the others have suggested.Worst, you can always pull out the disk, connect it to a Desktop with CD-ROM, get either Hiren's BootCD or UBCD and use the tools therein to recover.

Actually, I vaguely recall that Windows XP install CD has a procedure to reset the Administrator password on a disk installed with XP, or was it some Linux CD that had this? Rusty MEM:)

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