HELP! WindowsXP Home access
Having just returned to my computer after a six month contract in Central America, with Mrs A. I find that I cannot access two user accounts. We had taken her desktop and a laptop but left my computer for the house sitters use.
There are four user accounts: mine, Mrs A, A junior and house-sitter. Mrs A and I have full administrator access, junior is restricted and HS is very restricted. Not matter what passwords we try Mrs A and I have no access. We are asked to try our passwords again. There is access through junior’s account (with password) and HS’s accounts (which does not have a password). What happened to the two passwords? I suspect that they time-expired but in that case why didn’t junior’s expire. He has not had access to this computer in the six months.
In the ’98 and prior versions there was a password file that you could delete and then start over but it no longer seems to exist. I am using junior’s account so he may not have access rights to system files.
Any thoughts on how I can access these two user accounts, short of reloading the system, will be greatly appreciated.
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