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New Post 10/1/2007 3:51 PM
User is offline Hari Maurya
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Reset WinXP Admin Password with DOS 

1 .start RUN from start menu, enter "cmd" and press enter

2. enter "net user" or "net users"

you will see the list of users that are created on current running os

3. type "net user" "user name" "*"

you will see that windows will now ask you to enter new password for that particular account!

magic! no any type of super user privileges needed!

see the commands below:
If the administrator account user name is "admn" then command to change it's password will be...

net user admn *


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New Post 10/1/2007 4:07 PM
User is offline Vishal Gupta
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Re: Reset WinXP Admin Password with DOS 

Yep. Thats quite handy trick.


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New Post 10/1/2007 8:32 PM
User is offline neeraj
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Re: Reset WinXP Admin Password with DOS 

 Very good information hari,,

You helped me a lot...

Thnx dude

 
New Post 10/1/2007 8:32 PM
User is offline Tanmay©
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Re: Reset WinXP Admin Password with DOS 

Yep i'd tried this on my Coll's pc ! Didn't work. I guess u need to be in Admin to make this work. It doesn't seem to work with limited previliges




 
New Post 10/1/2007 8:41 PM
User is offline neeraj
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Re: Reset WinXP Admin Password with DOS 

 Tanmay© wrote

Yep i'd tried this on my Coll's pc ! Didn't work. I guess u need to be in Admin to make this work. It doesn't seem to work with limited previliges

No, Tanmay

I hav tried this on my pc through user with limited peviliges & it works...

Please correct me if I'm wrong

 
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