Hi Carl, Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 7:27:57 AM, you wrote: C> Yep, I'm still stupid. When I installed Windows xp some years ago, I did C> change the name but I did not assign a password. C> I am hoping someone will send a message how I can search the registry for C> the new name. But I can do that because windows will not load. C> Can one search the registry via dos? I can boot to dos. (I think) If you don't have NTFS, you can boot from a DOS floppy and look in "\Documents and Settings" to see the names of the accounts that are in use. If you use NTFS, you can pull the hard drive and attach it to another computer running Win2K or WinXP, and look at it that way. Or, you can download and burn the Ultimate Boot CD (http://ubcd.sourceforge.net, it's not very big, I don't think) to do the looking; it'll let you change the login password also, if needed. Select the second option on the menu ("Filesystem", I think), and then select the Offline NTFS editor, or whatever it's called. Just press Enter until it gives you a list of names. --Scott. To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pcductape-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface. To view the message archives simply go to: http://www.freelists.org/archives/pcductape/ Take a look at our homepage at http://pcductape.freewebpage.org/