I cannot remember Admin password, hint meaningless to me. ..

ccbon wrote:
 > I bought and paid for this computer, and the new XP Professional OS
 > software separately (I am not trying to hack someone else's). I
 > apparently set an Administrator acct. password and 'hint' at some
 > point but I don't recall doing it, and so obviously I cannot remember
 > what it is, and the hint doesn't make any sense at all. There's a
 > very REMOTE possibility that a fellow user set it but he doesn't seem
 > to recall doing so. I NEED TO EITHER RECOVER IT OR RESET IT. I am
 > able to get on with my regular account, but not as ADMIN. If I have
 > to, I CAN resinstall Windows XP but that is such a pain in the $%# so
 > if there's an easier way, can you let me know ?

First off, pointing out what you are *not* trying to do is more of a hint of
being guilty of the bvery thing you are saying you are not doing. You
could, actually, have found this information via Google.

If worse comes to worse, you can indeed "hack" the administrators password
using one of the many methods of doing so on the Internet.

Hack your password:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html" target="_blank">http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html</a>

Another Password Hack:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html" target="_blank">http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html</a>

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