PLEASE Check this out... Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 2:10 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Valerie (106 messages posted) Many XP users have not realised this until they really need to enter the Recovery Console to correct a problem. Please check your Registry BEFORE you need to start the Recovery Console. The Recovery Console startup will not accept any password, not even a blank if no password has ever been set. "On many XP installations you can't start the Recovery Console because it won't recognize your password. This registry edit causes the Recovery Console not to ask for a password. This works for both XP Home and XP Professional. Start | Run | Regedit Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole Set the DWORD SecurityLevel value to 1 Exit Registry and Reboot" Responses to this message: re: PLEASE Check this out... (MartinM: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 3:02 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 5:18 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Ms. Eagle: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 9:28 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] PLEASE Check this out... (Valerie: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 2:10 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (MartinM: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 3:02 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 5:18 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (geek9pm: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 12:09 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Rich Kurtz: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 5:37 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 12:01 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 2:25 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sat, Sep 20, 2008, 6:43 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Rich Kurtz: Sat, Sep 20, 2008, 11:15 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Valerie: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 6:07 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (MartinM: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 2:30 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Valerie: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 9:17 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Phil: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 5:28 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Phil: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 7:06 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Valerie: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 11:58 pm) re: Recovery Console password removal (Ms. Eagle: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 9:37 pm) re: Recovery Console password removal (Phil: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 5:45 am) re: Recovery Console password removal (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 9:03 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Ms. Eagle: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 9:28 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Valerie: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 1:35 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 2:16 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Valerie: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 3:03 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (MartinM: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 4:03 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Valerie: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 6:58 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 9:08 pm) Helpful subject lines for posts (MartinM: Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 1:52 am) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Gold: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 1:15 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Valerie: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 6:50 pm) re: PLEASE Check this out... (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Thu, Sep 18, 2008, 11:51 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum