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Originally posted by DigitalEnigma
Changing the password on windows 95 and 98 without knowing it.
1. Boot up into safe mode
2. Start > Search > Search for "*.pwl" - without the quotes (pwl stands for password list)
3. You will find whatever users have passwords on the machine
such as Winblowsuser.pwl
4. Delete the file
5. Restart
6. when the computer prompts you for Winblowsuser's password
just press enter
7. You can now go change the password [Becuase there is no old one]
This was already been posted in other threads (still a good trick), there we discussed ways to do this *without* rebooting. For instance you can log in as a new user, go to c:\windows and delete *.pwl, log out.