The security performance of Windows XP is much better than the previous Windows 9X. We can protect our secrets by setting a personal user password, but what if we forget this login password one day? Is it possible to format the hard disk? There is no other way to reinstall the system? No! Let us look for the secret to recover Windows XP login.
1. Create a boot floppy that fixes the user's password
Microsoft provides us with a function to create a boot floppy that fixes the user's password in Windows XP. When we forget the password, we can start the computer through this floppy disk. So we should make a password boot disk in advance just in case. Click on the “Start”\\“Control Panel""User Account” option, select your own account in the pop-up dialog window and you will enter the control interface of your account, then click on the top left of the window. ; Block a Forgotten Password & rdquo; option, enter the "Forgot Password Wizard" dialog box. Click “Next”, then the wizard prompts to insert a blank formatted disk into the floppy drive, and then click the “Next” button, the wizard prompts to enter the current password of this account, after losing After a few seconds, the password boot disk is created. When we forget our password one day, just click the arrow on the right side of our account, then click “reset the disk with password in the pop-up prompt bar, then insert the previously created password boot disk into the floppy drive, follow the system At the prompt, you can reset your password and log in to Windows XP. This method is suitable for Windows XP in various partition formats.
2. Delete Windows XP login password through dual system
If there are other operating systems in addition to Windows XP in our machine, you can use another operating system to start, then delete “C:\\Windows\\System 32\\Comfig” The "SAM” file in the directory (here, Windows XP is installed on the C drive), that is, the account password database file. Then restart Windows XP, then the administrator “administratoc” account has no password. To put it another way, if there is only one Windows XP system, you can also remove the hard disk and switch to other machines to delete the SAM file.
This method is suitable for Windows XP installed with FAT32 partition. If it is installed with NTFS partition, it is necessary to ensure that other systems can access NTFS partition.
3. Use the NTFSDOS tool to recover the Windows XP login password
First download a tool called "NTFS DOS" from “http://www.vgsecurity.org/index/html?ntfs/html” Use this tool to create a bootable disk that can operate NTFS partitions from DOS. After starting DOS, switch to the system directory, such as "C:Windows\\System 32", rename "Logon.scr" to "Logon.scr.bak", copy a <Command.com” and rename the file. For “Logon.scr”. Then restart the machine. When the screen saver is activated, you will find that the screen is displayed in command line mode, and there is an administratoc permission. You can change the password or add a new administrator account. After entering Windows XP, change the name of the "Logon.scr.bak" screen saver back. This method applies to Windows XP installed on an NTFS partition.
4. Use other tools to rebuild Windows XP login password
You can find many Windows XP login tools on the Internet. For example, you can use the boot disk of Linux Boot Disks to access the NTFS file system, and can read the registry and rewrite the account. And password; use the NT Acess tool to bypass the system Syskey protection, reset the password on Windows NT/2000, Windows XP; and the tools such as Passware Kit, o&oBluecon 2000, you can refer to the description of each software. .