Unlock Windows XP Password with Admin Account

Windows XP provides people who log into the computer with their own profiles. This customizes backgrounds, wallpaper and other user settings. If you lose a password for one of these profiles, you can reset it using the administrator account. The administrator account has full control over all settings on the computer, including user passwords. After logging into the administrator account, reset  Windows XP  password to grant access to the machine.
Follow the steps and learn how to unlock password on Windows XP if you can not log on the PC with a wrong password.
Step 1 : Log into your machine using the administrator username and password. This allows you to reset any user password, including the password for the administrator account.
Step 2 : Click the Windows "Start" button and select "Run." Enter "control userpasswords2" into the text box and click the "OK" button. This opens a user control console where you can edit user passwords.
Step 3 : Click the user account you want recover. Click "Reset Password" to open a new dialog box, prompting you for a new password.
Step 4 : Enter a new password into the text box. Enter it a second time to verify it. Click "OK" to save your settings. The password resets.
Step 5 : Click the Windows "Start" button and select "Log Off." This logs off the machine and brings you to the login screen. Enter the user account name and new password you reset earlier. You can now log into the machine using this profile account.
Tips :
1. You cannot reset any user or admin password if you fail to log on with  an available admin account and password.
2. There is a default admin password on Windows XP, you can unlock Windows XP password with it if you did not change the logon password yet.
3. It is better create  a Windows XP password reset disk when you set a password as the Windows logon password.
4. If you still could not reset Windows password, you'd better go to website and download a Windows password recovery tool, like Windows Password Unlocker,which is more efficient and professional to unlock Windows password for all popular Windows OS.