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How to Retrieve Passwords in Windows


XP
Administrative Privileges Method Restart and Reset Method Other Username Method Windows
XP Method Windows XP Password Manager Method Windows 2000 Method Linux
Method Hard Drive Method
Here are multiple ways to recover or change passwords on a Windows XP
computer if you have forgotten your password.
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Use your admin privileges.If you are logged on to an account with administrative
privileges, you can change user passwords using the following steps.
Click on the green Start button and click Run.
Type cmd into the text box and press Enter.
Type net user [Username of the Account] *. (For example, net user
Administrator*). Then press Enter. Make sure you spell the username correctly,
and you have the "*" after the username and space between username and "*".
Type in what you would like to reset the password to, then press Enter. Type
it in again and press Enter.
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Method 1 of 8: Administrative Privileges Method
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If you are logged out of the computer and cannot figure out the password at
the start up screen, do the following. (This typically only works on Windows XP
Home Edition.)
Restart the computer.
Tap the F8 button repeatedly while your computer starts up. You will get a
screen with a list of options.
Choose Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Press Enter to
confirm your selection.
Select your account. After waiting a while for all the drivers to load (all the
scrolling stuff), you will get the Welcome Screen, where you choose an account to
log into. We know that the other accounts you can't get into, but there should be a new
account called Administrator.
Click on the Administrator account and then use the Administrative
Privileges Method above to reset someone's password.
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Log in with any valid account.
Go to Start menu.
Click on Run and type cmd. Click OK.
Type the net user command to view the user accounts list.
Method 2 of 8: Restart and Reset Method
Method 3 of 8: Other Username Method
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Choose the account for which you want to change the password. For
example, if you change the password of administrator account, type the command
net user administrator * without quotes. Type the new password for the user and
retype the password to confirm and press enter. The password has been successfully
changed.
Note that this might not work on a limited account.
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Boot off your XP disk.
Start an installation and 'Repair' your windows installation.
When the progress bar says 'Installing Devices', press Shift-F10 to get a
command window.
Type NUSRMGR.CPL to get the User Accounts control panel. Change what
you like.
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Download and install Windows Password changer from www.password-
changer.com on another computer.
Run the software to create a password recovery disk with a CD or USB drive.
Boot the Windows operating system from Active password changer CD
and chose the Active Password changer option.
Chose the second option of search for MS SAM Database on all hard disk
and logical drives.
Method 4 of 8: Windows XP Method
Method 5 of 8: Windows XP Password Manager Method
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Press Enter to continue.
Chose the account number for changing the password.
Press Y to save the changes and exit.
Press any key to restart the system.
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Use a Windows 2000 recovery CD to boot the machine.
Start the Windows Recovery Console.
Access anything you like.
Add a user with Administrator privileges.
Change the Administrator password.
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Boot the machine with a recent version of Linux that runs off CD.
Mount the Windows drive (or volume with 'Documents and Settings' in it).
Method 6 of 8: Windows 2000 Method
Method 7 of 8: Linux Method
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Access whatever files and folders you need to.
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Pull the hard drive from the machine.
Install it in a drive enclosure.
Or plug it into another machine's IDE/SATA/SCSI/(whatever it is) port and give
it power.
Boot up with that second machine's normal boot drive as 'Administrator' and
access or change permissions on any files on the drive you like.
Put the drive back in its original case.
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Press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice at the login menu to pull up NT style login to
bypass the process of booting to a "Safe Mode".
To practice bypassing passwords for speed, make a password you
know and restart the computer and get the timing right for the boot F8
menu.
Method 8 of 8: Hard Drive Method
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