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rugby1:
Some good links for password recovery on this page
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
The second of the 5 free downloads does work very well..... I have had to use it on several customers machines and it has worked everytime
DaemonCollector:
I'm going to go ahead and repost a tutorial I made for hiding XP.
For the bootscreen: Use BootXP found at www.bootxp.net, there may be another program out there to do this that is free. I made BootXP free... Wink
For Autologon: Using the Run Dialog type, "Control Userpasswords2" and uncheck Users must log, when you close out of the window it will ask you to set the default user.
To change the Shell: Open regedit under the user you plan on changing the shell for. Be very carefull in the registry!. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot and if there is a value Shell, change the first 3 letters which read SYS to USR. Then go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and create a value for Shell and put the path to your new shell, in this case Mamewah.
To remove notifications: These are the little windows that come up and say "Loading personal settings" and the like, in regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system and create a DWORD value DisableStatusMessages and set its value to 1.
Change defualt user backgrounds: This is the autoloaded background when windows starts, to change just the color go to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors and change background to whatever color you want, its an RGB value, so black is 0 0 0. To set a picture like the instruction card I did, just create the picture and set the path for Wallpaper in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop.
To get rid of the starting cursor in windows XP Open Regedit, got the HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\ Create a key called "Cursors" and within this key create new string values as shown in the attached screenshot, but point them to whatever cursor you want.
All these changes where made on a Windows XP Profesional box without any SP's on it, it should work on any XP box though, and with the exception of BootXP should work on any NT System (2000, XP and NT)
Lets see how that stuff treats ya? It pretty much goes over whats already been said in the thread and adds a few other things.
Scoobie:
--- Quote from: rugby1 on January 29, 2006, 01:24:19 am ---Some good links for password recovery on this page
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
The second of the 5 free downloads does work very well..... I have had to use it on several customers machines and it has worked everytime
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What should I do since I can't get my PC to boot from the CD with the password recovery info?
I've checked the option in the bios/setup in DOS and it wants to look for a floppy drive (which I don't have) or goes straight to the hard drive and asks for the bloody password that I don't have. ??? ???
rugby1:
Well, if you can't set your BIOS to boot from floppy or cd then I think you are hosed.... probably have to format that drive and reload everything. Sorry...
DaemonCollector:
--- Quote from: Scoobie on January 29, 2006, 01:35:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: rugby1 on January 29, 2006, 01:24:19 am ---Some good links for password recovery on this page
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
The second of the 5 free downloads does work very well..... I have had to use it on several customers machines and it has worked everytime
--- End quote ---
What should I do since I can't get my PC to boot from the CD with the password recovery info?
I've checked the option in the bios/setup in DOS and it wants to look for a floppy drive (which I don't have) or goes straight to the hard drive and asks for the bloody password that I don't have. ??? ???
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Make sure the boot order is set to have the CD come above the HD. This is sometimes a seperate button to hit on bootup.
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