It can be done, but it is non-trivial. You can buy a commercial solution for a couple of hundred dollars, or you can take a look at http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ and see if that solves your problem.

P.S.: I should have said: There is no way to recover the password, but the above solutions allow you to erase the old one, so that you regain access to your system and can set up a new password.

Message Edited by Dietmar on 01-09-2003 04:56 PM

Try :If you can logon in an administrative account goto

start\run type control userpasswords2

choose administrator and reset button

May or may not work I have never used it.

James

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@jjm86j wrote:
Just recently i put a password on my administrator account.(the admin account in the safe mode..) i have lost it.. is there a way to recover it

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http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

that program shouldn't, but you never know..... it alters one of the critical system files. if something goes wrong and it is corrupted, you are out of luck.

a backup of files is recommended before you go boot from the pswd change disk.

it is compatible however. XP is actually a NT-class OS.