[Help] - XP creates password for users after Update, HELP!

[azbobbybooshay10]

OK, I've had this problem on two seperate machines.

Machine 1 is an HP with Windows XP Media Center. After a "Windows Update", it continually prompted me that I needed to restart the computer for the updates to install. It gave me the 5:00 countdown, with the option to "Restart Now" or "Restart Later". After it rebooted, suddenly all the users had passwords on their user login, when there wasn't passwords before. We didn't create the passwords, so now we were locked out of the computer. Luckily we had Norton's GoBack on here and were able to go back to before the change occurred.

Machine 2 is a smorgasborg running Windows XP Home Edition w/ SP2. It did the exact same thing as above. I am now locked out of this computer, without even being able to get access to a previous System Restore point. GoBack is not installed on this machine.

The only thing I can think of is that this is a bug with a new Windows Update. Does anyone know if there is some sort of "default" password that will get me back in? I have lots of data on this PC and don't want to wipe it clean and start over.

Hopefully I'm putting this in the right place. I didn't see anything here about this already.

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[azbobbybooshay10]

Anyone have any ideas? I only have 1 user on that Machine 2, and its locked out of it. I've tried just typing in "Administrator" and it doesn't do anything for me.

Will putting the XP CD and "Repairing an exisiting partition" fix it, but not disturb my My Documents folder? As well as the programs installed already?