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Latest post 11/05/2009 05:50 AM by fireberd. 1 replies.
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No windows login ID........I have a password though.

04 Nov 2009 08:59PM

Hello,kinda embarrasing to announce this problem......Butt. I was being nice and creating a user acct. for my niece. Not really trying to remember my user id since it hadnt moved since forever. I cleared it and added her name for a user acct. only to return and find out mine was gone.Nowhere to be found. Now i cant login to my laptop and I am the administrator.Duh!!! now i'm lost and can't find my way.can someone please help me.....please!!!  thanx. I'm running windows xp home.

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Re: No windows login ID........I have a password though.

05 Nov 2009 05:50AM

According to a Microsoft Tech Article (doing research on this), if the Administrator log on is lost, the ONLY option is to reinstall Windows (complete clean install).  The reason given for that is, if there were a way to get around that then someone could hack into your system or if the PC was stolen the thief could get into it.

Since you do have the user account, you MAY be able to access your user data and save that to some other media as all will be lost when you do the reinstall (unless you have that data backed up on separate media).

If you have a PC with the Dell recovery partition on the hard drive, that is (unfortunately) the easiest way to recover.  PC's with the recovery partion and Windows XP use CTRL/F11 at initial boot to access the recovery partiton.

This is a perfect example of why periodic backups are needed - not for "if" it will ever be needed but for "when" it will be needed.

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