Cannot change or remove password

[Guest]

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Windows XP Pro will not let me change or delete my password. On
entering my current password to verify my identity it says "The
password you typed is incorrect. Please retype your current password".

The password I entered was definitely correct!

 

[Guest]

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Perhaps you had caps lock on? If not, I don't know what the problem might
be...try asking anyone else who uses the computer if they might have changed
the password without you knowing it.

 

[Guest]

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As I think I made clear, I know the password! It's just this bit of XP
that thinks I don't.

Have worked around the problem - turned off 'Use the Welcome Screen',
then it let me change the password without complaint. Then turned the
Welcome Screen back on.

A nasty bug. I don't think much of XP's user management at the best of
times... The Administrator account get hidden from you in certain
modes....or does it get deleted?! It's all like smoke and mirrors. You
can't tell what's really going on.

 

[Guest]

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How could he log on then without knowing the right password?!
"robyng7" <robyng7@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7126D14C-6062-425C-9B80-DDC41E723AD5@microsoft.com...
> Perhaps you had caps lock on? If not, I don't know what the problem might
> be...try asking anyone else who uses the computer if they might have
> changed
> the password without you knowing it.