Hi Guys, Does anybody know, how to find and change the Administrative password other than from control panel option, if the Windows XP is corrupted, this was a question asked to my friend for his interview
You can do this several ways, one would be to right click my computer and go to manage, this will pull up the computer manager where you can then go into users and groups, then users and right click the administrative user to change password.
You can also be logged in as administrator, ctrl-alt-delete and click change password.
There are also netsh and net commands to perform this function from the command line, google net and netsh for those answers
If you cant right click my computer you can pull up your MMC by start > run type "mmc" into the box and enter, then add the computer management mondule and do it there
Lastly you can open computer manager on another network system, then right click up top where it says computer management (my computer) and click connect to remote computer, enter the other systems IP address or name and it should let you connect and change password with correct credentials
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April 19, 2006 19:49:29
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RE: Hi Guys,Does anybody know, how to find and c...
You can do this several ways one would be to right click my computer and go to manage this will pull up the computer manager where you can then go into users and groups then users and right click the administrative user to change password.
You can also be logged in as administrator ctrl-alt-delete and click change password.
There are also netsh and net commands to perform this function from the command line google net and netsh for those answers
If you cant right click my computer you can pull up your MMC by start > run type mmc into the box and enter then add the computer management mondule and do it there
Lastly you can open computer manager on another network system then right click up top where it says computer management (my computer) and click connect to remote computer enter the other systems IP address or name and it should let you connect and change password with correct credentials
RE: Hi Guys,Does anybody know, how to find and c...
You can change any passwords for that matter there is a window tweak command which you can use. Just type usercontrolpasswords2 in the run command and hit enter. Then a screen pops up where you can set passwords for any user on that computer.
RE: Hi Guys,Does anybody know, how to find and change the Administrative password other than from control panel option, if the Windows XP is corrupted, this was a question asked to my friend for his interview
yes it can be changed by repairing the window.
while repairing when blue sreen works over then the installation process starts on graphical mode.
press shift+f10 when the option comes "Installing Devices.
RE: Hi Guys,Does anybody know, how to find and change the Administrative password other than from control panel option, if the Windows XP is corrupted, this was a question asked to my friend for his interview
You can do this in the following ways:
Using the net user command
1) This is assuming if you have a valid account with admin rights open command prompt type "net user" it will show all user accounts including Admin then simply type "net user <login name> *"
It'll ask for the new password...
2) You can use WinXP CD to repair the OS and when it reaches installing devices progress bar press shift+F10 you'll get a console type "nusrmgr.cpl" you'll get a GUI to change/remove password...(haven't tried this one too)
3) There are many softwares made for this very purpose one such is Winternals (This is a paid software you may want to find an open source one) what it'll do is run parallely with XP and give you the option to change the password.
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