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December 29, 2009

Recover XP Admin Passwords

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/gr/ophcrack.htm

I was able to recover some passwords with the ophcrack LiveCD, but only passwords that were 4 characters long. So, I decided to look around some more, and found this:

If you can login with another user account:

If you share your computer with other users it's fairly simple to regain access to your account. You could ask one of the other users to log on to Windows with their password and perform the following steps :

Click the Start button
Click "Run"
In the "Open" field, type "control userpasswords2" (without the quotes)
Click ok
Windows opens a user accounts dialog. Select the user with the lost password and click the "Reset Password" button. Enter a new password (and a second time in the confirmation box) and click ok. Click ok once again and you are ready.

Now you can log on to your account using the new password.

So, this worked for me. Doh!

Posted by Rob Kiser on December 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM

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