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Sunday, January 18, 2004
Create and Use Windows XP Password Reset Disk
Here's how to create and use a password reset disk for windows XP. The password reset disk allows you to give your Windows XP account a new password should you forget your current password and not be able to log in.
This is an obvious security risk as anyone that gets a hold of this disk can get into your account. Please be very careful and hide the disk someplace where no one would think to find it.
Create a password reset disk
Click Start
Click Control Panel
Click User Accounts
Click on the account which you want to create a password disk
Click Prevent a forgotten password which starts the Forgotten Password Wizard.
(You can find this under the Related Tasks on the top left hand side)
Insert a blank, formatted disk into drive A, and click Next
Enter the password in the Current user account password box
Save the disk someplace safe
Use the reset disk
At the Welcome screen:
Click the user name whose password is on the reset disk
Click the question mark button
This causes the Did you forget your password message to appear.
Click use your password reset disk
This will start the Password Reset Wizard.
From this point, just follow the wizard's instructions to create a new password for you to use.
on 01/18/2004 at 06:34 PM
Thank You
Posted by
Victor
on 02/28/2004 at 08:50 PM
Played with the disk a long time ago. Had some issues and gave up ever since.