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By default xp has an unsecured adminstrator account. At the logon screen press Ctl + Alt + Del twice to bring up the standard logon dialogue box. Type the username "administrator" without the quotation marks. Leave the password empty. Press ok to login. Hopefully that gets you logged on to windows so you can reset your user account
<span>To log on to a computer as the administrator to reset a password, try the following steps.
<ol>
<li>Log on as an administrator.
<ol>
<li>Restart the computer.</li>
<li>Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE two times, and then type the name of the administrator user account.<br /><br /><b>Note</b> If you do not know any other administrator user account, try to type <span>Adminstrator</span> in the User name</b> box.</li>
<li>In the Password</b> box, type the administrator password, and then click OK</b>. <br /><br /><b>Note</b> If you do not know the administrator password, leave it blank, and then click OK</b>.</li></ol></li>
<li>Reset the password.
<ol>
<li>Click Start</b>, and then click Run</b>.</li>
<li>Type <span>control userpasswords2</span>, and then click OK</b>.</li>
<li>On the Users</b> tab, click the name of the user account that you want to reset the password for, and then click Reset Password</b>.</li>
<li>Type a new password in the New password</b> box, and then type the password again in the Confirm new password</b> box, and then click OK</b>.</li>
<li>Restart the computer, and then try to log on to Windows XP again.</li></ol></li></ol></span>
The following is a very easy tip & trick most of you must know about it it is also a very critical vulnerability which needs to addressed by microsoft the trick is this at the logon screen press CTRL+ALT+DEL and press DEL two times this will open up a User name and password box like those in Windows Server enter Adminstrator as user name and voila you are in user name is not case sensitive in this case.
Install a working CD-ROM drive.
Put your Windows XP disk into the CD-ROM drive.
Boot the computer from the CD-drive.
If you are very careful, and read the installation questions carefully,
and respond accurately, you can install another copy of Windows
onto the 'C:' drive, AND CHOOSE A FOLDER NAME THAT IS *NOT* 'C:\WINDOWS'.
Eventually, you can copy all your files from your "old" MY DOCUMENTS folder to your "new" MY DOCUMENTS folder.
Assuming you have never used a password on the computer, deleting the user name and leaving both fields blank will work. Failing that, there are utilities available to reset the password on Windows systems, post again with the operating system you are using.
you can use Active directory. if you don't have Active directory, right click on the selected folder, choose porperties and then security.
in general term: go to control panel>>users accounts, select the user and select the permission rights you wan them to have. if the user is not listed,
goto control panel>> administrative tools>>computer management>>Local users and groups>> select users and add new user. name and password. (default is user-rights).
then you can go back to user acounts and change their rights.
Adminstrator=Full rights to all folder and file, software installation and uninstall.
Power user= 80% rights to software installation and uninstall, rights to view files not change.
STD user= right to their own folder and files only.
To restrict only the adminstrator can configure the router, there is a login procedure prompted for asking User Name and Password. The default User Name is 'admin' and the default password is the default SMT password, '1234'.
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