I bought a computer (Windows XP Professional Laptop) at my old highschool fund raiser. Bad thing is, my old teacher said sign in as Administrator then just press"Enter" and it will be fine. Guess I should have known, It will not let me sign in as Administrator or Guest as 'Guest' is disabled and I cant even enable Guest without having Adminitsrator rights. Does ANYONE know how I may be able to find the user name and password that use to be on here? I cant even defrag the computer or remove programs to make this thing faster, and I bought it for my son. Any help AT ALL would be so appreciated, Thank You! ~Crystal
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Jump to Posthi,try hitting f8 on boot up and login to safe mode ,see if it will let you into admin acct there ,then go to users in control panel and create a new user acct with admin rites
Jump to PostI would suggest that you contact the school and explain the situation to them, they should be able to furnish the information you need.
Jump to PostI right clicked on control panel
open control panel ,go to user accounts ,clck to add a new acct ,give it a name ,then make it admin acct. ,this should work if you entered a admin account when you went into safe mode
Jump to Postwhen it boots to the login screen ,do nothing but hit enter ,what happens!
or click on the admin acct then hit enter ,which is what i think you are doing correct,
i'm a bit confused by what you mean by ,the 2 computer names under password
Jump to PostI found this information on Cnet, you could give it a try.
There are two different ways to reset the administrator's password that I have used successfully.
The first is with a commercial package: ERD Commander 2005 that is also available in the Microsoft Diagnostics & Recovery Toolset …
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