And that's why I mentioned it. Hundreds of others are reading these e-mails also. And some of them may want to apply this advice to their situation. I did mention in a following message that there is a program which cost only $40, for accessing NTFS files. Or to use Partition Magic to change the files system temporarily. -- Best regards, Bil Green PC 1000 Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 760-924-1000 mailto:tv.vcrrepair@xxxxxxxxxxx Thursday, June 24, 2004, 7:08:38 AM, you wrote: TTE> Bil; TTE> Expensive Work-Around. $150. TTE> Might be worth the expense if you were doing it as a Business, I guess. TTE> -Ed- TTE> Tel-Tek Electronics TTE> teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx TTE> Ontario-Canada TTE> -----Original Message----- TTE> From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx TTE> [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bil Green TTE> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:38 PM TTE> To: Bil Green TTE> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Windows XP password question TTE> Forgot to mention that deleting the SAM file is a tried and proven TTE> procedure and a new, empty SAM file will be created when Windows TTE> is rebooted. TTE> A simpler method would be to boot ERD Commander 2003 and simply TTE> change the password. This CD is simply amazing. I have fixed so TTE> many Windows problems using it. Boots an XP like Windows system TTE> right off the CD (not the hard drive). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/