Please help! I don't need my password anymore. How to
delete it?

I am the administrator acct on my Windows XP....I set up a password and now Windows will not recognize it...How
can I recover or change the password???

I upgraded from W2K SP4 to XP Pro. I had one Administrator profile and 3 user profiles on 2K, all transferred to XP fine. Once I created a new Administrative user on XP though, my original administrator account disappeared from the Welcome screen and User Accounts panel. How do I ...

When I go to cmd prompt and try to type a command (ping, ipconfig) it returns an error saying the the command or program or batch file doesn't exist. I can change directory to c:windows/system32 and the command works. Why doesn't it work from any path in the command shell?

I'm having a simiar problem.  My daughter got on my
computer and changed my password.  Now she can't remember
what it is...How can I find it out?

OK, we got a friends 2 year old computer which has XP
Professional loaded.  No one in their family can recall
the old passwords - nor the Administror Password.  
What can one do to get the computer to work?  Will buying

I have sent this version to the BT technical support
team, i am sending it here aswell due to someone may know
the answr to why this is happening in the microsoft
newsgroup website:

No OS is installed on my new computer, can I use the XP
disk from my old computer without paying for it again?
terrybue@charter.net

i have made an account and it wont let me to change the
type from admin to limited. So i decided to delete it and
found i can't find where to delete it. It doesn't have an
option anywhere in the User Accounts part of Control

All of my User ID information is on my PC under Documents
and Settings, but my actual ID at startup has
disappeared.  How can I either recreate my ID or create a
new one but reunite the ID with the information that is

is it possible to lock files such as my documents file or
the picture file and have apassword or something in order
to open them?

A user was having trouble with his computer. We determined
that the only way to cure the problem was to reload not
repair windows. The user neglected to tell me he had made
his folders private. Is there any way to access these

My anti-virus says I have a trojan horse in c:\Documents
and Settings\All
Users\Start\Menu\Programs\Startup\Reboot.exe
and says it is unable to fix the problem.

I have XP and Office 2003. My hard drive may be getting
sick. What about re-activation after changing it?

Can anyone help?
Running WINXP-Home, SP1 & ZoneAlarmPro (ZAP) 4.5.538.000
Windows Update fails with the following error number:
80072F76