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ok well today my dad gave me his old work computer and he forgot his password its on 1985-2001 windows xp I tried to put it in safe mode and run administrator but apparently it has a password to I cant access the control panel or anything of the sort all I can do is turn it on and off and try to type in random passwords(not very effective so far)can anybody help me with this please I don't really care if I lose the files I just cant lose the windows xp because I don't have the cd to put it on the computer again
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The only way i know of is to do a recovery with the Windows disc.

There is a way to hack your way in, but i wouldn't recommend that.
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Burn it to a disk or bootable USB device I guess and have it run.

It should tell you the password.
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