Jan 18 2009
Forget administrator password…. what to do?
A lot of times when we have to work an a pc whose password is not known to us but it is very necessary to start the pc as for some important files or sometimes we forgot the administrative password.
Then in this situation we didn’t left in any situation other than to call the AMC boy or reinstall a fresh window causing to load all the application and drivers again consuming a lot of time. But below is a very simple trick if we follow it vary carefully will solve our problem. For this you have a windows Xp cd and set your system to boot from CD so that the installation process takes in place but keep in mind that ypu are not going to actually load a new window. What to do read below…….
- Boot your system with the Windows XP Setup CD. A screen will come up to welcome you, then you’ll have an option to accept the EULA agreement, etc - proceed as required.
- When find the option to install the xp as fresh or want to repair choose repair by pressing ‘R’ which will start the repairing process.
- With in a few minutes you will find that setup has begin copying the needed files do not interrupt it and it will restart the system, when it shows ‘press any key to continue…” Don’t press any key as it will again start the whole process you did earlier.
- Now when it start the installation progress you can see the small progress bar on the left side of the window look it carefully when you see “Installing Devices ” press at the time “Shift+ F1″ keys which will open a command prompt window.
- Type nusrmgr.cpl and press enter. This will popup user accounts windo, there you can change or reset all passwords and restart the computer. Here you finished.
