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Windows user account lockout

Discussion in 'Windows OS' started by atyfreed, May 19, 2010.

  1. atyfreed Newcomer, in training

    On a laptop running XP which only I use, I decided to eliminate the guest account feature so that I could go straight to my desktop. However, after doing this, windows now wants me to login with a screen name and password which I never set up to begin with. How can I get back into windows to fix this?
    atyfreed, May 19, 2010
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  2. treetops TechSpot Evangelist Posts: 1,385   +12

    Start windows in safe mode and you can access user accounts, or if I remember right, start in safe mode, make a administrator account and then log in on your administrator account and you can change or erase the password on your other account.

    I googled and it looks like I must have just made a new account, however this link shows multiple ways to bypass the password on your current account through making a administrator account in safe mode.

    http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/getting-around-password-on-xp/153794.html
    treetops, May 19, 2010
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  3. atyfreed Newcomer, in training

    I got in. Thank you.
    atyfreed, May 19, 2010
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