If you forget your account password, is there any way to recover it? If so how? I went to this Microsoft page and you need to save this thing into 6 floppy disks, the setup disks, then you restart the computer and you can use them to reset to password from there, but when i do that it says Scanning for Floppy Disks...OK then after a while below that is Disk I/O Error or something like that. So now i'm going to try recovery program...
if your talking about the user password, you can always go to another administrator user (if like anyone else in your house uses that computer) and you can just change the password that way.
The problem is I don't :crashed: That's why i really really feel like kicking myself for not creating another account. I should have seen this coming!! :angry: So now I'm screwed and if my dad wants to use it to fix that virus problem i have i'm doomed, i can't get in!!
oh well then that sucks. i dont know what to do. the only thing i can think of is to restart your whole computer (like wipe out everything) but i dont think you really want to do that.
HOW?? HOW?? oh please tell me how!! i can wipe the whole thing actually, i've got my music and pics all backed up already.
Rebooting into safe mode adds the "administrator" user. to get into safe mode, restart comptuer, and just before the windows xp loading thing with the progress bars, keep pressing F8 and it'll ask how to boot. tell me if this helps or its just too hard to understand
well at the last resort you can always just sit there contemplating every possible password you could have come up with.
I'm doing that now @Evildude : can you explain how that can help? thanksi And if you change your password don't they ask you for the current one?
From Microsoft Help and Support "Recovering a user's password If you forget your user account password, check your password hint. (Your password hint is located on the Welcome screen beside the password prompt.) If you have a password reset disk, you can use it to create a new password for your account. Your personalized computer settings will be retained. For more information about using the Forgotten Password Wizard to create a password reset disk, click Related Topics. If your password hint does not help you remember your password and you did not create a password reset disk, you will need to have someone with a computer administrator account create a new password for you. For security reasons, a computer administrator cannot recover your password if you forget it; he or she can only create a new one for you. Notes A user with a computer administrator account can create and change passwords, and create password hints for all users. Users with limited accounts can only create and change their own passwords, and create their own password hints. If a user with a computer administrator account changes the password for another user, that user will lose all personal certificates, and stored passwords for Web sites or network resources." So to sum it up just log in as an admin on your computer and change your password.