@FROSTbyte007

OK, reply to me people :P

@ infmom: I haven't checked recently (i.e. since MS bought them out) but they used to have either one or two versions of each program. One version if it worked on all Win95+ or two versions - one for Win9x and one for Win NT / ME / XP.

Whilst it is _probably_ OK, they sound like a third party - why would Google and Yahoo work together on something? I wouldn't let them have my other login accounts - I'd set up a new account for them, with a new email account (all set up through the same spam gourmet account, although I do get called overly paranoid…

Gina ...: I gotta shorten my username....

@KillingGranny: Resetting the BIOS would get around the password - connect two pins IIRC to do that (probably best to check _which_ two though ;)

I think that Vista stores passwords in other ways. In XP if the password is under 14 characters its stores them one way (LM - Lan Manager Hash?) but over 14 in another way (NTLM - NT Lan Manager?). That 'other' way is the better way and should be what Vista uses.

OK minor correction to my comment (lets try to make it one line this time). The command is:

The easiest way to break into almost every single windows XP home edition PC is to boot into safe mode and log into the 'Administrator' account which,