getting past the Windows XP login

[Paul]

If someone (my parents) locked me outta my computer for whatever reason (for being on the computer too long), by changing the log in password with the admin account, is there anyway of me getting in without knowing the password? I thought I once heard you could do something at startup.

[Catalyst]

hit F8 at startup
goto safe mode
use the admin account to reset the password

[Dan]

u could uses the windows recovery consale to reset the registry but that whould reset all the windows setings and whould probly piss off ur parents.

[shorthair]

only works for home , disabeled on professional

[Tony]

pop in a windows CD and reinstall everything

[Paul]

Yay, thanx.

[Dan]

shorthair wrote:

only works for home , disabeled on professional

u mean the windows recovery thing? b/c it should work on any windows xp verson since it is ment to fix stuff like registry errors.

[shorthair]

My post was meant to be before yours , when you go into safe modde on professional , it asks you for hte admins password or whatever you main user is

[Martin]

You've got mod support now...whoever solves this problemo gets 1 million bits.

[shorthair]

well dan did i bit , pittched in and whoever else posted in thei thread , but im ot awarre what problem you speak of Darkness , d oyou refer to paulibians , because his problem is fixed now

[Andy]

when u log in, do u have to type the username? or do u click? if its set on typing the username, just create a couple of hundred accounts

[Martin]

Well, here's what you get a million bits for:
Reset the administrator's password with access only to a limited account
or
Find out/get past another user's password without changing it, again with only access to a limited account.

Windows xp professional by the way.

[Paul]

wow... your bits... did you magic them from thin air?

[shorthair]

log onto the limited account and find ht hidden file where log ins are stored , if ther is a bios password , just change the jumper settings also , what i did to get passes at school , is run my home made keylogger , you can get it to write to a nice location wher no one goes , and BAM you got yourself a password , profressional is the hardest , everythig else the safe mode trick works or jsut click off hte logon

[Maverick]

wow a million bits. I'd have to buy a hundred websites