Locked out of XP User account

Fr0z3N · November 09, 2004, 09:30 PM

Hi I have a friend who unfortunatly locked herself out of her main account and has been using a guest account. She has forgot her password and her reminder helps her not. Any help would be appecriated as to how I could make a program to get her password [vb6] or as to how she would do it with step by step instruction.

quasi-modo · November 09, 2004, 09:32 PM

You cant in vb6 but there is software that can do it. You will need to get your hands on a copy of ERD commander.

Fr0z3N · November 09, 2004, 09:37 PM

For 150$ I'd rather burn my HD.

quasi-modo · November 09, 2004, 09:41 PM

Quote from: i8tweety on November 09, 2004, 09:37 PM
For 150$ I'd rather burn my HD.

Who said buy it?

Fr0z3N · November 09, 2004, 09:48 PM

Valhalla Legends does not support piracy.

iago · November 09, 2004, 09:53 PM

There's freeware software to reset your password. I can't remember what it's called, unfortunately.

Or you can reinstall Windows XP

Thing · November 09, 2004, 10:00 PM

Google knows all ...

muert0 · November 10, 2004, 12:18 AM

Here:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

quasi-modo · November 10, 2004, 07:19 AM

Quote from: i8tweety on November 09, 2004, 09:48 PM
Valhalla Legends does not support piracy.

Who said anything about piracy? I am just saying if you need this software there are many ways to aquire it. I was more thinking that you could just borrow the software from a person you do not know over the internet. Think of it as 'sharing' the files. Okay okay its piracy. But ERD commander can do what you seek.

muert0 · November 10, 2004, 03:08 PM

Or you could just use the bootdisk I posted and it should be pretty simple.

quasi-modo · November 10, 2004, 04:38 PM

Quote from: muert0 on November 10, 2004, 03:08 PM
Or you could just use the bootdisk I posted and it should be pretty simple.

I bookmared that site. It might be fun for some pranks at the lan party I am going to be at this weekend

CrAzY · November 11, 2004, 02:07 PM

While booting up your computer, hit F8 until a Windows bootup selection comes up. Choose safe mode and log on as "Administrator", after goto your control panel then edit your users, you can change password create user, everything. Hope that helps

Zakath · November 11, 2004, 11:15 PM

I'll take this opportunity to plug my registry patch, which restores this to Windows XP.

Skywing · November 11, 2004, 11:25 PM

Quote from: Zakath on November 11, 2004, 11:15 PM
I'll take this opportunity to plug my registry patch, which restores this to Windows XP.

The win2k-style "friendly" user manager always tended to crash for me. You should use compmgmt.msc instead.

Zakath · November 12, 2004, 12:00 AM

It tended to crash? Really? I've never had problems with it. I just can't stand the ugly XP default, so I changed it.