Before you go through all that, see if you can use the Administrator account with a blank password. For XP Pro, press CTRL-ATL-DEL (maybe twice) at the Welcome screen to get the regular logon, for XP ...

forgive me if i'm being retarded, But let me try to explain this better, No i DO NOT want to hack Xp's password thingy, I simply want to know if it's a manditory thing, example, in win98, when it ...

Changing a Windows password from Command Prompt is fast, but it is important to understand what the command actually does. It does not reveal the current password. It replaces the existing password ...