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Question: I have an older machine running windows XP which doesn't present a log on screen for a user just takes you right into windows. I recently bought a new computer I run linux on and wanted to turn my XP machine into a virtual machine. So I did just that and ported over the image to my new machine. The problem is when I go to run it with VMWare it gives me a logon prompt for my username, which it never did on the physical machine. This computers old to the point if I even had a password (which apparently I did because in won't log me on without one) then I definitely don't remember it. My question is since I still have the physical machine and can log onto that as the root user is there any way to retrieve my password.

I'm assuming the software I used to create the image added the logon prompt "feature" for security reasons so you can't use there software to quickly steal peoples entire working machines. So if I can't retrieve the password is there any way I could reset it to something so when I recreate the image I'll know the password.

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Then I'd say
1) Install the recovery console (How to install and use the Recovery Console in Windows XP)

2) Boot into recovery console

3) change to c:\windows\system32\config

4) rename "Sam" to "Sam.old"

5) Reboot