25-09-2004, 11:24 PM
I've lost my user account on my computer. Help!!!
I start up Windows XP Professional and get to my 'friendly login' screen and there are no user accounts listed. Going through the motions of Ctrl-Alt-Delete to do manual login, brings up the login box in which I have to enter passwords, however no passwords were set previously on the accounts, and so cannot access Windows at all. Booting up in Safe Mode brings up the same result.
I think this has been caused by a bad stick of RAM (computer started performing a physical memory dump), and will look into it as soon as I can get the computer functioning reasonably well again.
I don't really want to have to perform a repair installation with Windows disks, as I'm not sure that I have them anymore.
Any ideas? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I start up Windows XP Professional and get to my 'friendly login' screen and there are no user accounts listed. Going through the motions of Ctrl-Alt-Delete to do manual login, brings up the login box in which I have to enter passwords, however no passwords were set previously on the accounts, and so cannot access Windows at all. Booting up in Safe Mode brings up the same result.
I think this has been caused by a bad stick of RAM (computer started performing a physical memory dump), and will look into it as soon as I can get the computer functioning reasonably well again.
I don't really want to have to perform a repair installation with Windows disks, as I'm not sure that I have them anymore.
Any ideas? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.