How to Retrieve XP Password When You Forgot It
Posted in Computer Operating System Support by freetaotaoA colleague’s computer, install Windows XP, all FAT32 partition, but he forgot user “OWNER” Password, and didn’t do a corresponding emergency disks, what should he do? In fact there is a way to solve this problem, that is Windows XP NET command.
Windows XP in the NET command syntax is:
Net [accounts | computer | config | continue | file | group | help | helpmsg | Localgroup | name | pause | print | send | session | share | start | statics | Stop | time | use | user | view]
net user command is used to add or modify user accounts or displays user account information,it’s an important command and will be used in this.
syntax is:
net user [UserName [Password | *] [options]] [/ domain]
net user [UserName (Password | *) / add [options] [/ domain]]
net user [UserName [/ delete] [/ domain]]
The specific meaning of each parameter please to see Windows XP help,
we are now entering Thesis, in order to restore the local user “OWNER” password, for example, solve the login password forgotten methods are:
1, restart Windows XP, in the moments after the splash screen appears, press F8, select “Safe Mode with a command-line “Run.
2,When the process stops, the system lists the super-user administrator and local user owner of the election, Choose menu, mouse click on administrator, enter the command line mode.
3, type the command: “net user owner 123456 / add”, mandatory OWNER user’s password will be changed to “123456. “Add a user (such as: user name sunmanyu, the password is 123456), please type” net user sunmanyu 123456 / add “, add the following can be used” net localgroup administrators sunmanyu / add “command will be User Management Group for the system administrators to upgrade the user with a super-authority.
4, restart Windows XP, select the normal mode, you can use the changed password “123456″ to login in WNER.



