admin password recovery for XP

[robk]

is there a way to recover my old administrator account without reformatting....someone who didnt know better changed my account info and now i cant access some of my more important documents...
ive found all the info for win2k and nt password recovery...is there anything for XP yet?

[vsantoshkumar]

U can do one thing to recover ur files...
a simple one ofcourse...
forget abt the password recovery ok...
just connect ur hard disk to another computer and just copy the files...
Thats the only way...
Bye
Santosh

[rdc]

\"Someone who didn\'t know better\".
They must have some knowledge of a pc to change a password , and they also must know your password in order to be able to change it ,
The only thing I can advice  is to reformat , and reinstall your operating system with the original cdrom .

[Danny]

You can use ERD Commander 2002 from http://www.winternals.com/. This will recover any admin password on the local machine. Very good tool for exactly this purpose.

[robk]

actually guys its was easier than i thought....just boot to safe mode...and change the admin account back....

as far as \"someone who didnt know better\"
i didnt originally have a password for the admin account...so anyone could access it.....unfortunatly they wanted to make their own account...and in the process changed things around so i couldnt access my own account....

anyway
thanks for your help guys...