Changing Administrator account password

[atari37]

I have a notebook running Windows XP pro. The only account on the PC is the Administrator account, whoever setup this PC didn't document the password and has left the company so I'm trying to figure out a way to get in and change the password to prevent refreshing the drive.

Can I somehow use the Window XP media to accomplish this?

[IcemanND]

no.

this has been brought up numerous times on the forum, search, search, search. specifically for forgot password in the tiles in advanced search, you'll find what you need. You can use te google search alos but you'll get more results that are not related.

[cake311]

To Remove Your Windows User Account Password

Check this out :

• Active Password Recovery (NT/2000/2003/XP/VISTA)
  
• NTPWD (NT/2000/XP/2003)
  

[eyeball]

use locksmith on Nortons ERD commander. That works everytime

[Ponch]

You got to love it. A guy registers exclusively to contradict the will of a Super Moderator on a thread from 2 weeks ago.

This almost beats Zhoulengbo on this thread. Or is it just spam ?

[TheFlash428]

You got to love it. A guy registers exclusively to contradict the will of a Super Moderator on a thread from 2 weeks ago.

This almost beats Zhoulengbo on this thread. Or is it just spam ?

Well, I've use Active@ Password changer before, and it does work--so if it is SPAM, at least it is actually usefull (I don't truly consider something SPAM unless is both unsolicited and of no real value to the targeted audience, in this case the link does actually refer to a software that accomplishes the goal stated in the thread).

What actually made me chime in though was the referenced post by Zhoulengbo--I hadn't seen that when it was originally posted, and I almost fell out of my chair with laughter on that one. I'm almost inspired to register for random forums and start doing things like that myself...or, on second thought, no, maybe that's a complete waste of everyone's time!