Ever forgotten a windows xp password? Well, now you can have the assurance of being able to access an account and reset the password without previously knowing the password. This works for any account with a windows xp computer that's not booted off a network.

Step 1

Get physical access to the machine. Remember that it must have a CD or DVD drive.

Step 2

Go to http://ebcd.pcministry.com/ and download the disc ISO in the pro version.

Step 3

Download the file and then burn the ISO onto a blank disc using an ISO writer or CD burner such as InfraRecorder, nero or UltraISO. This creates the EBCD bootable disc. This also has many other tools. You may do this on the target machine or on another machine.

Step 4

After you have the disk, enter the bios of the target machine and make sure that the first boot drive is the CD or DVD ROM. Chances are it already is.

Step 5

Boot from the disk. It should automatically load the main screen, but if it asks you to press any key to boot from the CD, do so.

Step 6

After it has booted, choose option number 5, the password recovery. This will guide you through a set of steps and instructions, and if you don't know otherwise, just press enter and it will use the default options, which will work just fine.

Step 7

When you get to the list of users, choose the user whose password needs to be reset. Follow the instructions that the program gives you, such as type in the user name, and put the password in as the * key to just blank the password. This is much more successful than changing the password through this program.

Step 8

Once this is done, make sure that you write the changes to the hive and SAM files (an option the program will ask you about upon exiting).

Step 9

Reboot the computer and take the cd out before the computer boots from it again.

Step 10

Log in as that user (it will have no password if you just blanked it).

Step 11

You can now create a password for that user.