Lost my Windows XP password. How to login and start?

Sniptools

2009-12-09

First, do you have the administrator password? Login as an admin and change the password of your user ID. (Obvious Adams?)
NEW: If you are an Administrator user, and are logged into Windows right now because your PC is setup to log you in automatically, but have forgotten your password in fact, and would now like to change it - well, Windows requires you to know the old one. However, there is a brute force way to change your Administrator password. Open a Command prompt (START> RUN> then type "cmd" without the double quotes) and then type the following command:
net user username newpassword

Remember, if the username has spaces in it, then enclose it in double quotes, e.g.,

net user "Samuel Jackson" pulpypass

This would change Samuel Jackson's password to pulpypass provided Samuel Jackson was an Administrator user.

Don't have admin access? Well, you can get it if you wish by downloading a cool utility from Thomas Mathiesen to recover Windows password if you have forgotten it. Read More