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JHawk
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Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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Location: Wichita, KS, USA
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 Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:24 am Post subject: Default administrator password? |
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I'm fixing a friend's Gateway 835GM. I had to perform a full (destructive) system restore from the CDs. One system file (msgina.dll) would not install correctly. Unfortunately this is required to get into Win XP.
I am comfortable installing this file via the Recovery Console, but when I try to access the c:\windows directory, I am asked for the Administrator password. Since this is a fresh installation, it must be a default password. I've tried just hitting ENTER and also all the logical default passwords I can think of. Can anyone tell me the default Administrator password?
(Lest anyone ask why don't I just do a repair installation since I obviously have an XP CD, my CD is for XP Pro, and the Gateway has XP Media Center Edition.)
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JHawk
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Location: Wichita, KS, USA
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: Default administrator password? |
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I used a utility to blank the password. Still don't know what it was, but I care a lot less now.  |
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Postman Delivers
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:55 am Post subject: Re: Default administrator password? |
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JHawk pretended :
| Quote: | I used a utility to blank the password. Still don't know what it was,
but I care a lot less now.
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JHawk,
Were you able to repair it, or did you do another recovery since you
have the Gatway CD set...
JR the postman |
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