How can I recover a windows xp administrator account password w/o reformatting or changing the password?

Question

How can I recover a windows xp administrator account password w/o reformatting or changing the password?

Answer 1

Is this computer stolen

Answer 2

hirens boot

Answer 3

You have to change it.Open the command prompt and type Net user _______ *

In the blank enter the name of the account and hit enter, then enter a new password for them

Answer 4

Do this, in your account

Start>Run>cmd> the command prompt pops up

In the command prompt, type net user

you should see "Administrator"

Next, type this exactly into your command prompt

net user administrator *

Note: for the star, it's number 8 (shift and 8)

Then type a new password for administrator

Type it again to confirm

If that doesn't work

Try ophcrack, it can crack password up to 11-word long.

It's an image file (.iso) burn it onto a cd usin' imgburn

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

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