I am the only user on a home computer.  I need access to the administrator
account.  Where can I set a password for administrator?
Clean install of XP Pro. (no admin password)  Upgraded to Home Premium.

on a friends new notebook with XP Pro Sp3 is a strange effect. If he
tries to log in, the system says the password is incorrect. But the
password is correct, this is twice checked. On the system is another
user without a password. If he logs in with that account, he gets into

In addition to a post just before me. I have Service Pack 3 just installed on
Windows Home Edition.
I did change the password of Administrator in Safe Mode in ControlPanel/User
Account dialog in several ways (NO mistyping) :

I was just on my laptop and had changed the users to only one and no choices
when booted up. I have XP Home edition. it is networked with my desktop.  I
was having trouble logging onto chat mode in yahoo mail and decided to
reboot. when i rebooted the first thing that happened ...

I recently had a motherboard failure, and I was unable to get my existing
installation of Windows XP Pro to boot from the new mobo.  (FYI: There is a
way to do this, but I blew it I guess.  
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html)  

Hi there, i have stupidly forgotton my admin password, so cant get into my
computer at all :( can anyone please give me some advice.

I keep getting System Alert pop up.  It is telling me I need to download
spyware from a web site.  I allready have it.  How do I get rid of this.  I
did a virus scan and nothing comes up.

I use XP Home edition on my desktop and laptop.  When I turn on the desktop,
I do not get a log-on message and simply start using the computer.  However,
when I turn on the laptop, I get, "Windows XP Media Center Edition" with a
"Window Log On" screen for user name and password.  ...

I want to enter content advisor to change settings for the internet,  but
I've forgotten the password.  I can't find any place to change the password.  
This isn't the password you set up to enter your personal desktop.

I have a file that has been saved with read only, with only the author having
edit permissions.  All other users have permissions inherited from folders
above.  Even domain admins had read only.  One user had to be able to edit
the document, so I unchecked the "inherit from ...

i have ESET's NOD32 antivirus(currently disabled) installed in my system and
also have windows defender, i wish to know if i can continue fully using both
these applications without any clashes... NOD32 prior to installation asked
me to uninstall any other antivirus s/w, ...

so i installed Service pack 2 and now when i try to start my computer when i
try to boot up XP it's giving me an Error Message saying UnmountableBoot and
after that it will boot again and again all over again.
I've tried pretty much everything and i am so ready to chunk my ...

My Security Centre wont able me to disable my firewall when I try to I get
this message "For your security some settings are controlled by Group
Policy". I cant make any changes. I only have one user on my computer, it is
a home computer. Can someone please help me to diable this ...

When enter My Computer and then add/remove; I see many entries that show
Windows XP Hotfix.  What does this mean.  I would like to remove all of these
but am not sure if these are updates.  Would also like to remove XP updates
but cannot.  HELP

Under Tools and Plug-ins, I find TrackSweep. I check all the items under
Internet Explorer, but nothing happens. When I look into Windows Explorer I
see that the cache has not been emptied. Is there something I'm missing
here?