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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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dennis@home wrote:


"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I was hoping someone knew the default administrative password,

There is no default, search for Peter Nordahl's windows password
recovery (bootable floppy/CD/USB)


The usual way to hack most XP installs is to start in safe mode,
ctl-alt-del to get the password screen, use administrator with no
password. This is because most users don't actually use administrator
and don'y change the password or disable the account.

It won't start in safe mode either.

IIRC there is a key you can hold down while booting to bring up the
boot menu something like right-ctrl


That would be F8 dennis


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