PS - I am refurbishing this computer and giving it to a Senior Citizen neighbor here and so really would like to be able to login using the original Win XP OS installed, because i need to delete the XP home that was intalled as a temp work around. Neither of us can afford the $400 to buy a new OS, and my neighbor is not interested in Linux.
Thanks again,
love,
joyce
Know Mystery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Know Mystery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Friends -Last week, i picked up a desktop computer that a neighbor had discarded while moving out, and last night i decided to see if it worked - taking a break from the other computer's adventures for a day.:)It's a couple of years old and a little slow - a Toshiba CPU with a black chassis and keyboard, NEC monitor, and HP Deskjet 693 series printer. At first glance, it looked like it was not going to be easily salvageable - the power switch on the top right of the chassis had been depressed and the button snapped off and was wedged inside the case behind the rack mounts of hard drive and CD rom drive and there was no way to visually inspect it .Fortunately, there is a second power switch hidden behind the front door of the chassis.:)It booted easily into Windows XP Professional Edition... and a user login prompt for Lily XXXXX. I tried every possible password that came to mind and could not get in. Booted into Safe Mode to try to login as Administrator, but could not guess the right admin password either. Booted again into the setup and changed it to boot from CD first, and then inserted my own XP Home Edition CD. The original OS was on a FAT partition, so i set up a second NTFS partition and installed XP Home there. I was then able to successfully login on the new partition.:)What surprised me was that once i was in on the new XP partition, i was able to see everything on the original partition!! So much for Windows alleged stealth security. Amazing that a second OS on a second partition could so easily let me access folders and documents on the first partition with a different OS version.I am still unable to get around Lily's password, and would like to do this so i can uninstall the second partition and OS that takes so much disk space.Does anyone know if Windows XP uses the same sort of .pwl entries for passwords as earlier versions of Windows? I am thinking that if it does, i can simply delete Lily's entry in that file and then i should be able to login (or finagle a new account on that original partition).Thanks in advance for any assistance.love,joycePS - Happy Friday!!__________________________________________________
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