XP: Password required at logon screen.

[mattress]

Hi all,

I recently wiped a friend's pc and reinstalled XP for him. He used the PC that night and everything was fine. A few days later he tried to logon and was asked for a password! I have assured him that I didn't set any password for account logon. I am sure that I have heard of this happening before, phantom password protection on XP accounts but I can't seem to find any info on it at the moment. Anyone have any experience of this? Is there any way/or software available, to sort this out?

cheers
mattress

[Waka]

Can he get in without a password?
Did you set an administrator password?
If you can get in type 'control userpasswords2' in the run box and turn off the users must enter a password bit.

W.

[mattress]

I have only spoken over the phone and it seems that he cannot get in at all. I was wondering if you can add new users to the PC if you can get in via safe mode?

No, I didn't set any passwords at all, never do.

Do you think that the 'control userpasswords2' command can be run in safe mode?

[evilsatan]

Is it a NT looking logon screen? Someone who I helped the other day was running XP, I didn't change any logon details but when I rebooted a NT style screen had a strange username in it and asked for a password. It didn't lookel ike the home edition of XP standard logon screen. I just clicked ok with no pass entered and it worked, maybe that will help you?

[mc.dodd]

some software help posted in VIP downloads

[blacksheep]

get a linux boot cd, get the password hash and then use rainbow tables to reverse lookup the password (or try brute forcing)

[mattress]

I'll text him and advise that he tries it. Thanks guys. I'll let you know if it works.

[B B Leo]

if it was working fine when you gave it to him back then was it not his fault that there is now a password on it ?

[Welsh Pete]

get a linux boot cd, get the password hash and then use rainbow tables to reverse lookup the password (or try brute forcing)

Can you explain this a little more. I have the Linux OPK CD (Slax) and I aint got a clue how to use it beyond the linux desktop that loads...advice?

[plug1]

Try press ctrl ,alt ,del at the logon screen , when the dialog box appears ,enter admin as user and leave pw blank.
Plug

[trueblue924]

hi i am sure this happened to me a while ago and the password ended up being the profile name might be worth a try

[coin-op]

Can you explain this a little more. I have the Linux OPK CD (Slax) and I aint got a clue how to use it beyond the linux desktop that loads...advice?

I'm not sure if it's the same one, but I have lophcrack or something like that - based on slax I think(The disk is at work so I can't check) - as far as I' m aware it opens a terminal window on the desktop and tells you it is starting, and to press a key to close.

I have tried it on my machine and it gets the passwords ok.

[Mr.James]

as plug said but hit <ctrl>+<alt>+<del> twice...

[Raptor]

if that doesnt work grab Winternals Administrators Pack v5 from newsgroups

make a bootable recovery disk and load the LOCKSMITH program

just change the password and job done

I use that disk almost every day for lots of shit

[mattress]

Cheers guys, sorted.

[coin-op]

Cheers guys, sorted.

You gonna tell us how you did it? It may help others.

[drdude]

A friend of mine managed to lock their Vista account out by forgetting their password and I used this simple tool (need to make a bootable floppy / CD / USB stick) to unlock and reset their password:

Offline NT password & registry editor

Works a treat on XP too, of course!

[crazyal]

if that doesnt work grab Winternals Administrators Pack v5 from newsgroups

Cheers Rap, gonna grab this and check it out.

[polarnimedo]

plug's right...but after you've done that, go to user accounts and remove pw from your friend's account. reboot and he should be able to log on no problems

[danthescan]

plug's right...but after you've done that, go to user accounts and remove pw from your friend's account. reboot and he should be able to log on no problems

I think he has been able to log in since the 29th of January M8.Nice first post as well, but have a look at post dates as well as content.Welcome.