On 8/19/07, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<div id="{E39535A7-FB72-49E3-B9DE-E810D14F045C}"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 08/19/2007 01:13 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote: > Does chntpw work on laptops? I have a WinXPPro laptop that I changed the > password to a while ago, but I've forgotten it because I usu. leave it on, > and haven't let it shutdown in a while. I tried chntpw, but it didn't seem > to work. This is my company-issued laptop, and it would be really bad if I > got locked out and couldn't use it. > > Hope someone can help. > Thanks > > Jimmy > ></blockquote><div id="{DC3D6FA7-AFA8-47EE-925D-F53C69567374}"> I think I figured out what was wrong: I was using a Ubuntu Live CD - working fine (but then again, laptop is relatively new). I would cd to the Windows system32/config dir, and do `chntpw -u 'Jimmy Wu' SAM`, type * to blank, and it would seem to work normally, but doing a chntpw -l right afterwards showed no change in the password (ie still not blank). Then I remembered from my experience working with an NTFS HD on my home Ubuntu machine, that I had to install ntfs-3g or something like that before Ubuntu could write to NTFS (otherwise, it's read-only, I guess). So I installed that, along with ntfs-config, told it to enable write access to the XP hard-drive, and tried chntpw again, and this time it worked. Thanks for the really detailed instructions, though unfortunately I didn't check my mail until after I had done the above. Jimmy </div></div>