Windows XP with Mamewah shell... forgot login...DOH!

[Truz]

Wow this is the first time i have posted here in a while.


Anyway my mame machine is running Windows XP with Mamewah as a shell. Now i havent had any reason to log off of the shell and do work within windows for a while. But today when i went to log off of the shell by using ctr alt del i was faced with a problem. I forgot the login and password to access just the windows xp and not the mamewah shell. Crap!

I know the name and password for the shell but i cannot remember the login to get into just plain old windows xp. I am quite the idiot, but i really dont remember even settin the password for it. Is there a default username and password it would be set at?

If not is there some way i could recover my password? Also keep in mind that this mame pc doesnt have a floppy drive. Am i screwed or is there some other way i can get this password.

[jcrouse]

I believe you are hosted if you don't know a username and password with admin privileges.

John

[Truz]

crap that sucks. I am going to try a bunch of things and hopefully i will guess the login right. But if anyone knows of anyway to retrieve a password or override it please help me out here.

[Truz]

WooHoo!!! I got it.

With a little help from this program

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


It is a boot disk program that has the abilitiy to overwrite passwords and such. Best part is i didnt even have to have to fully rewrite the registry to to reset the passwords because it displayed the login name that i needed and i remembered that i had set it to a blank password. This just made my life a lot easier. Maybe next time i wont be stupid and forget my login lol.

[lucindrea]

heh i was just going to poiint you to this .. it's a life saver for a tech like myself who needs to go to clients site where the server was setup by "some guy" a year ago. ( it works in NT and w2k servers also )