Forgotten WinXP Pro login user/password

[Theo]

On of my best mates came to me the other day with the laptop she uses at Uni. She told me she had forgotten her login username and password (it was auto-sign in, then she turned it off without remembering what the user and pass were.

I seriously don't know how she's done this other than being blonde. Is there any way I can get into Windows without the login/pass? Or another way around it?

Reinstalling most definitely a last resort. I asked her if it was okay to do this, and she said that most of her uni work is on it (not backed up in some other format). Gah! I suppose I could copy her hard disk onto one of mine, and extract the files - then install. However, this would mean buying some kind of laptop Hdd -> IDE connector, but I'd prefer to get this done without having to buy anything/open up her laptop (hate laptops!).

Anyhoo, thanks for any replies
Theo.

[Jonny M]

Administrator account? Boot up in safe mode, use the Administrator account and the password. If she hasn't set it, it will probably be blank.

[Russ]

and its most likely that her username is her name
and her password is the same as all her others ;p

women eh

[Gubs]

Password reset disk? I don't know whether the one you use has to have been made from that computer though.

[Moby-Dick]

use something like winternals ERD commander to reset the admin password if nessesary :-)

[Theo]

Thanks for the help chaps, a guy on another forum gave me a link to a linux disk which resets the admin password. Works like a dream

http://www.listsoft.com/?id=12378

[itsanobscureid]

Originally posted by Theo
Thanks for the help chaps, a guy on another forum gave me a link to a linux disk which resets the admin password. Works like a dream

http://www.listsoft.com/?id=12378

that might come in useful - evil cackle