re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP'
Saturday, September 2, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ian Rivlin
(8 messages posted)
VERY EASY.
You're going into the repair console too early.
Simply don't elect for "REPAIR" at that stage, carry on and click "install windows",
THEN press F8 (ie accept the agreement, then you'll be given the opportunity to REPAIR
on the next page. No administrator password is required. You will have to use the
Product key, though.
Do understand, though, that Reapir often doesn't work. It might be best to use Windows
Install Clean Up (you can download it from Microsoft.com) and first make sure that
you don't have any conflicting registry entries. PCSurgeon's registry check is reasonably
good and not too aggressive in chpping out registry entries. You might try that after
running Windows Install Cean Up. (But only do this if you have a working knowledge
of registries. (it can be a bit of a minefield, if it's not used properly). Hope
this helps, Ian
PS, if all this fails - copy all your downloaded executable files and documents to
another hard drive and fully re-install Windows - you can do this without re-formatting
the C drive. It's not really a big deal and virtually guarantees that all the rubbish
which is clogging up your computer is removed.
On Saturday, September 2, 2006 at 3:54 pm, AldoV wrote:
>IAN,
>
>Can you help me? I'm experiencing the same exact problem as you. I'm attempting
to
>do a repair utilizing the windows xp pro cd (even though my comp has windowsxphome)
>and when i get to that point it asks me for adminstrative password and nothing works.
>Can you tell me exactly what you did to repair this problem? I apologize in advance
>for not being very computer knowledgable however if you can help me i'd really appreciate
>it
>
>
>
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