XP password reset
Posted by Wes in 
Someone asked me to fix their computer, but they didn’t know any of the passwords for it. Short of formatting it, I didn’t really know what to do.
After some searching, I found the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD which worked perfectly.
- Download the CD image
- Burn to a CD
- Boot to the CD
- A small linux program runs
- Answer a few questions about what partition and the user(s) you need to clear and/or reset the password for
- Write your changes to the disk
You can also edit the registry if you need to hack some bad keys out of there, like spyware startup entries.
Super handy tool!
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