{"id":481,"date":"2012-06-15T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:12:11","slug":"forgot-windows-xp-password-how-to-reset-it-with-sticky-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/forgot-windows-xp-password-how-to-reset-it-with-sticky-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgot Windows XP Password? How to Reset it with Sticky Key"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forgot Windows XP password? There are many ways to unlock your Windows installation if you forgot Windows password<\/a> and can’t log on your computer. Today I’ll show you another procedure to reset Windows XP password<\/a> with Sticky key. The main advantage of this password reset method is that you don’t need third-party software,\u00a0 but it requires that you have a Windows PE bootdisk, or create one if you don’t have.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> For average computer users, we recommend you to use this password reset utility to reset your forgotten Windows XP password – Reset Windows Password<\/a>.\u00a0 The software also works with Windows 8\/7\/Vista and Windows Server 2008\/2003\/2000.<\/p>\n

Supposed you have created a Windows PE bootdisk<\/a>, then follow these steps below to reset Windows XP administrator password:<\/p>\n

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  1. Boot from Windows PE and access the command prompt.<\/li>\n
  2. Find the drive letter of the partition where Windows XP is installed. It is usually C:. To find the drive letter, type C: (or D:, respectively) and search for the Windows folder. Note that Windows PE usually resides on X:.<\/li>\n
  3. Type the following command (replace “c:” with the correct drive letter if Windows is not located on C:):
    \ncopy c:\\windows\\system32\\sethc.exe c:\\<\/span>
    \nThis creates a copy of sethc.exe to restore later.<\/li>\n
  4. Type this command to replace sethc.exe with cmd.exe:
    \ncopy \/y c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe c:\\windows\\system32\\sethc.exe<\/span>
    \n<\/strong>Reboot your computer and start the Windows installation where you forgot the administrator password.<\/li>\n
  5. After you see the logon screen, press the SHIFT key five times.<\/li>\n
  6. You should see a command prompt where you can enter the following command to reset the Windows password:
    \nnet user administrator new_password<\/span>
    \nIf you want to reset other account password, replace administrator with your desired account.<\/li>\n
  7. You can now log on with the new password.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I recommend that you replace sethc.exe with the copy you stored in the root folder of your system drive in step 3. For this, you have to boot up again with Windows PE because you can’t replace system files while the Windows installation is online. Then you have to enter this command:<\/p>\n

    copy \/y c:\\sethc.exe c:\\windows\\system32\\sethc.exe<\/span><\/p>\n

    Now you are done! The sticky key trick takes advantage of the security holes in all current available Windows system. So I can’t assure if it will also work with Windows 8 or later operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Forgot Windows XP password? There are many ways to unlock your Windows installation if you forgot Windows password and can’t log on your computer. Today I’ll show you another procedure to reset Windows XP password with Sticky key. The main advantage of this password reset method is that you don’t need third-party software,\u00a0 but it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4],"tags":[114,214,215],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-xp","tag-forgot-windows-administrator-password","tag-forgot-windows-xp-password","tag-reset-windows-xp-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}