zeekyhbomb Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 My dad recently brought home an old computer from his work for my brother. We do know the password to a Non-Administrator account, but not to the Administrator account or an account with Administrative Powers. The computer is a Dell Laptop, Pentium III, running windows XP Office I believe. And help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doughnut Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Maybe ask the company/person who owned the computer first for it? Or was it a donated computer and where it was gotten from is unknown. "A time comes when silence is betrayal" MLKJ Speak your mind, but be civil.Get mad, but do not rage.Do unto others as you would want done to yourself. "] Follow the doughnut to my blog! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeekyhbomb Posted June 30, 2007 Author Share Posted June 30, 2007 It was only used at my Dad's work, but he doesn't know who the Laptop belonged to. It was replaced by a newer laptop at some point and they keep all the old laptops to bring home or whatever else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 It was only used at my Dad's work, but he doesn't know who the Laptop belonged to. It was replaced by a newer laptop at some point and they keep all the old laptops to bring home or whatever else. I don't know if we are allowed to talk about this kind of stuff here, but search Google for "Windows XP password cracker" or something and you might stumble across something :wink:. Scan it for viruses just to be sure also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomster Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administr ... ssword.htm Note, by resetting (generally easier than recovering) the password, encrypted data will be lost. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ - This one, I can recommend, it's got friends and relations out of a few spots, in some unfortunate circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 I just watched a video that recomended this http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/ but i haven't used it myself Here is the video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooberman Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 you don't need software. start up xp in safe mode and log in as administrator. then go to control panel, user accounts, choose the users profile you want to get access to, the you have the option to change or delete the password. reboot the computer and that will be that. oober Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleficus1055 Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 you don't need software. start up xp in safe mode and log in as administrator. then go to control panel, user accounts, choose the users profile you want to get access to, the you have the option to change or delete the password. reboot the computer and that will be that. oober He cant log in as administrator, thats the password hes trying to get Tumblr. Follow me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooberman Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 oops, should have read more carefully. I thought he meant he couldn't access the account with administrative rights. I was assuming it was like most pc's I deal with, the administrator account only becomes available when booting into safe mode and therefore are very rarely password protected. oober Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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