Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article Steps. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Author Info Last Updated: June 3, Press F8 before the Windows boot screen appears. You will be be prompted with a boot options menu. Click through several self-explanatory screens until your reach the familiar 'Welcome' screen. Note that this welcome screen is limited to colors and x resolution because the primary graphics will have been set to the Windows Safe Mode software VGA adapter.
You will not be able to change this mode even in Display options, while Windows is running in Safe Mode. Find the icon for the Administrator user. If the default settings of your system haven't been changed, there should be no password for this account.
The Safe Mode Welcome screen might display some of the other users on your system. Press Yes at the prompt asking if you would like to continue using Safe Mode. Open up the command shell. This will bring up a window likely unfamiliar to you. This is the command line, it allows you to manage files or change settings without restriction no restriction on the administrative account. Before the graphical environment of Windows, this is what Microsoft users used.
Change the password of the account. It will ask you to type in a password, then to retype it. You just changed the password! Log in. Exit the command shell dialogue, don't type in anything else if you don't know what you're doing, you could really hose down your computer. Log out of the administrative account, then log back in to your account with the new password. Reboot your computer. Type in "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows.
If you have XP Pro or Media Center and were using the built-in Administrator account for your regular work and it is therefore the only user account on the system, there are ways to change the password for that account to a blank. Microsoft doesn't permit us to tell you how in these forums. Their house, their rules. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
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The reason we login as them is so that their login name is always the default name and all they have to do every morning is type in their password and away they go. The login user name is always the last recorded successful login by a user, this is stored somewhere in windows, and deep freeze locks it in every time the machine gets frozen.
I would prefer to code, script, or otherwise configure windows to display a specific user name at the login screen. It would also allow users to keep their passwords private. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Stoelting Jun 14, at UTC. Try joining as a "local Admin" that sould the best option.
Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Pure Capsaicin. DragonsRule This person is a verified professional. You do know that XP doesn't qualify for the free upgrade to 10, right? In many laptops HDD removal is very simple. Easier than some desktop machines. You won't, either. You can only remove local passwords, but that's all you need to do to get in to any Windows based machine.
EDIT - ok, there may be a rare exception, a machine with some seriously locked down policies. If that's the case booting from Linux or putting the drive in another PC will let you get to the data. Why not just blow away the XP and install Windows 10 from scratch? In the OP it says he wants to recover data. Ghost Chili. How about I am running Windows 10 on a 10 year old system and the only thing that is a bit odd is that i am using a Vista based video driver. All the rest works perfectly.
Richard Jun 20, at UTC. Thai Pepper. TLWiz This person is a verified professional.
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