change admin PW

[spookn]

I had a bit of trouble this morning, and when I tried to get into the recovery console it wanted a admin PW. Which I don't remember putiing one in. ( I almost always use the same one, for this very reason. or if possible, use none)
How do I go about changing it, especially if I don't remember it?
XP pro SP2 (can't think of anything else that is needed)

I should add that I can log on as a user with admin rights. I jus couldn't use the recovery console on the XP CD. I may need it in the future, so I want to be able to.

thanks
B

 

[Peddant]

You need to make the following regedit to stop the Recovery Console asking for a password.

Start | Run | Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole

Set the DWORD SecurityLevel value to 1

Exit Registry and Reboot

 

[spookn]

thanks for the info.
i have to boot into the xp partition to make the change.
If at all possible to explain, so I dont make same mistake twice, why was it asking for a PW? That has never happened before. I usually try to not set a PW, or if I do, I use the same one. It would't let me use any of the possible PW's I could think of. There is an outside chance that for some reason I can't think of, I used a new PW. Its just not likly.
So at what point in the setup//install, did xp ask for it? I am positive I didn't change anything after that, and Its a new install.
thanks
B

 

[Peddant]

why was it asking for a PW?

I don`t know the answer to that.It can happen if XP was loaded from a Sysprep image,
or if the Console thinks the Administrator account has changed in some way.
Why it does it ? Probably security reasons.

This is Windows.Some things are inexplicable.