Vista - i need help on trying to recover my password for windows

i wanted to know if i can get you to try and help me i am an administrator
for my computer and i forgot my windows log on password and i was wondering
how should i go about trying to get into my account setting so i can change it

Linux based some operating system can reset the admin code but if you have
encrypted NTFS file system, you loose access to this folders. And i don't
know this operation is whether legal, or not. Austrumi - (Linux-console)
based free operating system - can reset admin password. I heard some there
is some windows tools but encryption is still the problem.

"rachel+" <rachel+@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i wanted to know if i can get you to try and help me i am an administrator
> for my computer and i forgot my windows log on password and i was
> wondering
> how should i go about trying to get into my account setting so i can
> change it

Sorry the gorup is about vista, i did not noticed this. This information i
gave is for XP.

"rachel+" <rachel+@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news49366F2-5398-4CD3-976A-CA4EBF7B9D90@microsoft.com...
>i wanted to know if i can get you to try and help me i am an administrator
> for my computer and i forgot my windows log on password and i was
> wondering
> how should i go about trying to get into my account setting so i can
> change it

Rachel
I did some searching for you and I found the following article by Vic Ferri
on the TechTrax website. It concerns XP, but just might work with Vista also
(?).

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=305


"rachel+" wrote:

> i wanted to know if i can get you to try and help me i am an administrator
> for my computer and i forgot my windows log on password and i was wondering
> how should i go about trying to get into my account setting so i can change it

I use ERD Commander or Knoppix for lost passwords. They are boot CD based
Linux programs which allow you to access your drives and recover passwords.

"tacwalker" wrote:

> Rachel
> I did some searching for you and I found the following article by Vic Ferri
> on the TechTrax website. It concerns XP, but just might work with Vista also
> (?).
>
> http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=305
>
>
> "rachel+" wrote:
>
> > i wanted to know if i can get you to try and help me i am an administrator
> > for my computer and i forgot my windows log on password and i was wondering
> > how should i go about trying to get into my account setting so i can change it