Admin Password reset in regedit

I have a laptop with Vista Business on it.

There are two accounts, one Admin and one User.
I can log into the user as i know the password but have forgotten th
Admin password. I cannot perform tasks such as cleanup etc as it alway
prompts me for the admin password, which i do not know. I have tried al
of the other suggestions and still get prompted for the forgotte
password.

I recently had a similar experience on my desktop, where the admi
password was not recognised and i was not allowed to log on, and
accessed the regedit to reset from there. I have tried to follow thes
steps again with no success. Any suggestions. I am keen to do it i
regedit as i know this already

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mazzymoomoo

Can anyone direct me to somewhere that could help

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mazzymoomoo

Hello Mazzymoomoo

You can use METHOD THREE in the tutorial below to reset your password

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...t-password.htm

Hope this helps
Shaw

mazzymoomoo;1235078 Wrote:
> I have a laptop with Vista Business on it.
>
> There are two accounts, one Admin and one User.
> I can log into the user as i know the password but have forgotten th
> Admin password. I cannot perform tasks such as cleanup etc as it alway
> prompts me for the admin password, which i do not know. I have tried al
> of the other suggestions and still get prompted for the forgotte
> password.
>
> I recently had a similar experience on my desktop, where the admi
> password was not recognised and i was not allowed to log on, and
> accessed the regedit to reset from there. I have tried to follow thes
> steps again with no success. Any suggestions. I am keen to do it i
> regedit as i know this already

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there are some methods I found.
You can access the Administrator account through the login prompt
without logging into safe mode. If the computer utilizes the welcome
screen instead of the standard NT domain login prompt, you can press
Ctrl + Alt + Del twice to get to the login prompt. This is only true if

you are running Windows XP Professional Edition. Windows XP Home
Edition
will also allow you to use this method to log on.
If it doesn't work above , you can try to use"windows password key 8.0
"to get back the password !


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