[Billthedrill]

I almost hate to ask it, but do you have a recent System State backup?

[ShadowAce]

Yeah--DL Knoppix, or another security-minded linux distro. They include tools for resetting the Admin account password to anything you want.

[finnman69]

SYSTEM RESTORE

[ShadowAce]

You can also try the Ultimate Boot CD. It also includes that functionality.

[Perdogg]

I would get rid of the Spybot. If you have Norton you don't need Windows SP2. This came from an engineer at Norton.

[NormsRevenge]

Insert Microsoft XP 'Recover Your System Sanity' Token

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Good luck! FReepers give great tech support!

I'm still running W98SE

[KoRn]

Re-install Windows. That's what I would do.

[HEY4QDEMS]

If it were me, I'd try to backup as many files as I could and the do a full reinstall.

Issues like the kind your PC is experiencing always seem to have residual effects that will linger long after you get your admin profile corrected, that is if you get it corrected.

[KillTime]

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Hack into your XP admin acct and change it to what you want.

This works, we use it all the time for forgotten/corrupt passwords.

Go to that link, hit the DOWNLOAD tab on top, go to bottom of page and pick either floppy boot disk (bd050303.zip) or CD boot (cd050303.zip) For CD you will have to know how to burn to a CD, but if not there are directions on that page.

Follow prompts once you boot with the hack and select all defaults.

[GeorgiaFreeper]

Have you tried following the instructions in this Microsoft Technical article:

How To Reset Security Settings Back to the Defaults

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;313222

[demlosers]

When I started to load SP2, I inadvertently click the terminate button during the upgrade, and as you can imagine it messed my computer up real good but I'm computer savvy, I then did a SP2 uninstall and corrected the numerous software errors as they came along during the reload... I was successful

So don't give up on SP2. Try it again but turn off all those unnecessary processes that run in the background, especially firewalls, virus checkers, spybot-SD resident, ect...

There's always another way with computers systems...like right now I'm being blocked to FR because of a main router being down:

r01-ffm1.treml-sturm.net

Router: r01-ffm1.treml-sturm.net (217.68.0.107)
Location	Current Index	Response Time (ms)	Packet Loss (%)
Germany (Frankfurt)	0	0	100

However, I found another way to get here. :)

[firewalk]

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[Golden Eagle]

Microsoft provides free support for anyone applying or configuring security upgrades. Simply call 1-800-pc-safety and they'll walk you through any required repair processes, I used it before myself one time after XP SP2 caused some issues on a system.