Why me? Xp hates me! and i hate it too!

[NYC37]

First, my swap file was "too small or was not available. A temporary page file has been made" windows said.(its all because i did a re-install of windows-no format) well, someone on this board told me to go into the recovery console, and copy a file over the swap file and delete it. sounds good, i thought, let me do it when i got time(long time ago i got the answer)
i finally had time to do it today, backed up my mp3s and docs in case of worst, and what does the recovery console say??? my password was incorrect!!! ARGH. It asked which windows installation, i chose the only one there, my C drive. than it prompts for admins password. my profile is computer administrator, and it say's my password is incorrect! theres no othe rprofile, no guest account, nothing else.

its win xp home btw, and my other choice is to reformat the C drive. i dont want to do that, ill lose all my settings and stuff. God this is bad. i like win98, delete the .pwl file, and im all set. but noo..it wont accept my password. i tried everything, typing it in, spellign it out exta carefull, typing in curses(good anger releiver) and im stumped what to do now. My page file problem still exists, and it dosnt affect the computer much, but it still affects it. and thats NO good. And sys restore wont work. yay.

I'm one unlucky dude.

[cw823]

It doesn't matter that your profile is computer administrator, there is still an account called "Administrator". With limited experience with XP (2 weeks was enough), I know 2000 prompts you during the OS install for an Administrator password....have you tried entering no password at all?

BTW, if you can make it into Windows, use a program like Partition Magic to create another small partition on your hard drive, back up to that partition, then format your primary partition and reinstall. Any of my single drive systems always have at least a 2 Gb partition set aside on the HD for backups.

[jw50]

I dont know if this will help or not, or if it really works, but this is a post on another site that says you can delete a file that will remove the passwords for the accounts. Look at the posts from chooch.

http://www.xp-erience.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1353&pagenumber=2

[RangerJoe]

i say format the sucker, that way everything will be clean, you get a new start, you dont have all the extra crap on the computer that you dont want...thats what i did...after i had the same problem you did....much easier....especially if you have a short temper......

[NYC37]

thats what im going to do, full format. ill backup all user data and such, and clean this F******. yea, i tried no password. no good.