help me please

someone entered a pasword for my windows xp pro
and i have no acces on my pc
the worst is he dont remember it
I CANT FORMAT IT
please tell me what to do

 

tap f8 as the comp boots and choose safe mode, then choose the administator and from there you can go into the controll pannel and remove the password and then choose a new one..

should do the trick, if anything goes wrong then tell me.

 

thanx for the reply i tried allready
ica n not entry the safe mode probably something is wrong with my windows.
is there a change to do something by operating my hard disk to another pc that boots from other disk ialready done this to save my files but it would be great to avoid format

 

some OEMs like Dell, HP...etc install XP with a blank ADMIN password.
It all depends who installed your XP.
The way I see it is you have 3 options
1. WAR ...wipe and reload
2. Inplace install, will wipe out your SAM, that is what you want , leaves all your data, ,,,on a healthy system..if you have viruses and spyware and trojans,,, bad sectors on your HD ..I would not do this .
3. search google for a "password change tool" ( not warez ) it was writtin by a university guy in linux, you boot from the cd or floppy and it will allow you to change YOUR local admin password or actually any password on your pc....locall passwords only.

 

if windows boots up normally wait til the welcome screen and hit ctrl+alt+del twice and it will bring up the windows 2000 style login box.

Type administrator in as the username and whatever your admin password is and it will log you in.

from there you should be able to change your password in the control panel

 

try taking out the cmos battery for a few minutes then put it back in

 

@ jmc23200

that is the stupidist suggestion ive heard this year... all taking out the cmos battery will acheive is restting the bios passowrd... if it even does that... this guy is asking for help with his operating system and NOT his bios

read before you type

 

damm..thats harsh..stupidest youve heard this year!!..ouch.

 

LOL There is probably some 10 year old kid somewhere crying his or hers eyes out.

 

lol... good they should be crying and not because i called them stupid because theyve just realised how stupid they are lol.

anyway its only february theres plenty of time for a stupider thing to be said

lol

 

...and they will probably grow up hating computers , sneaking up behind ppl on there pc's and strangling them.

 

Man..jmc23200 as soon as you read this UNSUBSCRIBE from this thread if you already havent..you two are very creul, hang your heads in shame..especialy you SypherTek!!

LOL