There are two ways to reset forgotten Administrator password. Method one – Reset During Repair Reinstall: Use Win XP installation disk Run Recovery (not Recovery Console) Press Shift+F10 during GIU portion of repair / install Run LUSRMGR.MSC to reset any user password to whatever you want During my tests, this method always ended up in freeze during a late install stage on “Deleting Temp Files” Method Two – Use LUNIX bootable CD: Download free boot CD software from http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ It might be called Offline Registry Editor, but this utility main purpose is to reset Administrator passwords to blank. Burn a bootable disk (only 4MB) Boot from this CD. Blank Administrator password…
