OT Windows Question

[Anonymous]

I did a bad thing at home. I have forgotten my password to an adminsitrative
account (Windows XP Pro SP2). I've been changing it regularly and writing it
down on a piece of paper that I keep in my wallet. I got distracted
yesterday morning and didn't get 'er done. I know the consequences to us
novice users. I stand to lose everything once I reinstall the OS.

Is there a hack, a special contact, anything or anybody I can talk to to get
me around the unknown admin password.

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Rick Lincoln
LDT07 SP2A
Windows XP Pro SP2
P-IV 3.0Ghz 2 Gig Ram
72Gig 10k rpm SATA HDD
Quadro FX540 Nvidia 128MVRAM
Logitech Mx700 Cordless Mouse
All Around Good Egg

[Anonymous]

hard-learned lesson #2304:

make sure you blow the dust out of 'em before using for the first time in
two years.

that antique drive bay tends to behave like a cool air intake vent, and can
really hog up the works when you shove that dust-bunny right back into the
inner sanctum.

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email address is bogus, do not use unless you want to spam the gov't agency
monitoring spam.
"David Plotts" wrote in message
news:5471884@discussion.autodesk.com...
Every computer I build still has a floppy drive, they are around $10 and
only get used for this type of diagnostic work.

wrote in message news:5471582@discussion.autodesk.com...
Tried to create the reset disk. Got as far as trying to put a blank,
formatted floppy in my non-existent floppy disk drive.

DOH!!!

Rick

[peter.ashby]

No special qualifications needed - I guess most of us here have had to resort to hacking round problems as they occur with CAD - its something you end up quite good at - that and getting round blocks put in place by enthusiastic IT bods.

[Anonymous]

We just got an external USB floppy drive for the office for about $30. That
way people can go find it when they need it (once in a blue moon).

wrote in message news:5471959@discussion.autodesk.com...
I normally do to. I was on the "floppies are old technology" band wagon when
I bought it. I've been cussing the decision about once every two or three
months when I could use one. I suppose I could just install one.

I spec one in all my computers nowadays.

Rick