hi , im trying to help a freind out, he couldent sign into yahoo or msn for some reason, so he inserted the xp disk and it gave him the option to fix xp or reinstall xp , but he dosent want to loose all the files he has so he used the fix option but it asks fo admin password , when he types it it keeps saying wrong password , i really need to no is there a standard password to let him in? , another thing is when you go into windows and it has options like start windows in safe mode etc it just keeps reseting its self , my mind is done in , please please help guys , many thanks

Hi bullyboy,
If your friend never set an Administrative password, try just leaving it blank and hit Enter.
The only other thing, I had to do, was take the silver battery out from motherboard and reset it back in. Do this with PC off and unplugged, give it a few minutes to cool before doing this.

It will reset the Administer password back to Blank if needed.
Hope this helps.
TD

ok i will give it a try , many thanks

I beleive that will ONLY reset the CMOS / BIOS password in order to run the CMOS setup.

Well if it is the Windows password.
Go to this site http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Download the .iso burn it to CD (make sure its bootable)
and follow the walk through provided.

Hope you come right.

Appologies,
I had meant to say if it was for BIOS/CMOS.
Even with windows, if I leave Admin password blank, I just need to leave it blank; in the event MS asks again, just need to press Enter to get in.

As explained in this topic, we can not / will not help with passwords.
http://forums.whatthetech.com/cant_get_into_pc_t93463.html