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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Create a Password Reset Disk

Create a Password Reset Disk

Microsoft has enhanced security features in XP including the the ability to create a floppy

diskette to recover your password incase it is forgotten. 

Click Start 

Click Control Panel 

Click User Accounts 

Click on the account which you want to create a password disk 

Click Prevent a forgotten password which starts the Forgotten Password Wizard . This is found under Related Tasks 

Insert a blank, formatted disk into drive A, and click Next 

Enter the password in the Current user account password box 

To use the recovery disk, at the Welcome screen 

Click the user name whose password is on the recovery disk 

Click the question mark button 

This causes the Did you forget your password message to appear. 

Click use your password reset disk 

This will start the Password Reset Wizard.

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