You will be presented with a traditional logon screen. When you get to the Windows XP Welcome screen, simply press Ctrl + Alt + Del twice. You can then see the default Administrator account displayed at the logon screen.īoot your computer normally. Repeatedly press F8 key while turning on your computer, until you see the Advanced Boot Options screen.
Here are two ways to log on to Windows XP as the default Administrator account:īoot into Safe Mode. The default Administrator account is only accessible in both Safe Mode and the traditional logon screen. However, if you've set up another user account, the Administrator account will be hidden from the logon screen. By default, the default Administrator account has no password. In every installation of Windows XP, there is a built-in and default account named Administrator, which is equivalent to super user or root in Unix/Linux system. Option 2: Reset Windows XP Password in Safe Mode To reset your password, enter the following command at the Command Prompt: net user user_name new_passwordįor example, if I want to change my account which is Jack to password 123, I would type in net user jack 123 and press Enter.
Actually that's not the only way to help you out. Lots of computer users think that they need to reinstall the system after forgetting the password to log into computer.