Is there a way to change a password if original was forgotten?

ive been away for a while and cannot remember my password on my laptop Toshiba notebook. Is there a way to get around it to reset to a new one?|||Windows XP automatically creates a user account on your computer called "administrator".





Shut your computer off. Then you turn it back on. While it is booting up, you keep tapping the F8 button.





That will eventually bring up a menu (don't worry if your computer starts beeping at you every time you push the F8 button... that is normal.)





On that menu that comes up, you will choose to start the computer in "Safe Mode". (use the arrow keys on the keypboard and choose Safe Mode, then hit enter.)





If another menu pops up, hit enter again... and let windows start booting into safe mode.





Eventually, a list of users will come up. Click on "administrator".





When you get all booted up into the "adminstrator" account, simply go to the control panel, double click on "users", find the account you want and click on it.





Then choose to change the password.





You can change the password to anything you want on the next screen WITHOUT knowing the old password... Remember, you are now in the hidden "administrator" account that has the power to do this.





Once you have the new password changed and saved, shut down your computer again.





Now start it back up and you'll be able to get in the account you changed the password on with no problem.





This will work 90% of the time.|||there usually is a forgotten password but if not you could try calling the company or tech support they maybe able to help you out


sorry i dont know more


good luck to you.|||yan use some tools to change your original password.





Ex:http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/





it support windows 2000, xp . 2003(partly)