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if you have another user account with administrative privileges you can log into that account and change your original user account's password from the User Accounts applet in Control Panel. If you don't have another account like this set up or don't have the password to it, you'll need to log into the built-in Administrator account. In XP Home, boot the computer into Safe Mode. Do this by repeatedly tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up. This will get you to the right menu. Navigate using your Up arrow key; the mouse will not work here. Once in Safe Mode, you will see the normally hidden Administrator account. The default password is a blank. In XP Pro, you do not need to go into Safe Mode. At the Welcome Screen, do Ctrl-Alt-Del twice to get the classic Windows logon box. Type in "Administrator" and whatever password you assigned when you set up Windows. If you reset the built-in Administrator account's password in Home or have Pro and don't remember the password, use NTpasswd to change the built-in Administrator account's password to a blank. Download the bootable CD .iso, burn with third-party burning software such as Roxio, Nero, or the free ImgBurn . Burnas an image, not as data. Boot with the media you created. You may need to change the boot order in the BIOS or get a temporary boot order menu with a special keypress. NTpasswd will run. Follow the instructions carefully. http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Then go to the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and set passwords that you will remember and make other desired changes. Then have a talk with your son. ;-) MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

there was only one profile on my computer and it was once the adminastraters now its alimited account lost alladminastraters rights

What version of XP do you have? If you have XP Pro or Media Center Edition and you were using the built-in Administrator account for your daily work (and as you can see now, it is not A Good Thing to have only one administrative user on the system), then you will need to use NTpasswd as described above to change the built-in Administrator's account to a blank. Then log into the account (no password will now be required). If you have XP Home, follow the steps above and go into Safe Mode to see the normally-hidden Administrator account. If making the NTpasswd bootable CD and using it seems too difficult - and there is no shame in admitting this; we all have our areas of expertise - take the computer to a local professional (not a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place). The pro will be able to get into your computer in just a few minutes and fix the situation for you.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

I do have xp pro With this NTpasswd cd not only can change the password you can also change the name on the account? No it wont be to difficult for me to use if this if the case

No, you don't use NTpasswd to change an account's name. The only way you can change an account's name is to create a new account named correctly from within Windows. You have no need to change an account name at this point. NTpasswd will allow you to change the built-in Administrator's password to a blank. Then you will log into that account with the blank (null) password. Then you will go to Control Panel>User Accounts and create a second administrative user account for emergencies. Since creating a second administrative user account will hide the built-in Administrator account from the Welcome Screen by design, you'll have one more step to do so the Administrator (your account) shows up: Enable Administrator account on Welcome Screen - http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_admin_ok.htm This is because best practice says you don't use the built-in Administrator for daily work. However, with XP all administrative user accounts are equal in power so it doesn't really matter if your daily user account is Administrator as long as you have a second administrative user account for emergencies (like the one you are grappling with now).MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

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