Administrator Account Password in XP Home

In XP Home Edition the administrator account is only accessible from SafeMode. This account have no password by default.

To ensure a more secure system.

1. Turn off your computer.

2. Power on and press F8 just after the BIOS check is complete. Select Safe Mode from the List. Its around the top of the list.

3. On the next page press ENTER.

4. Work you way to the Desktop. Goto Control panel by:
*Clicking on Start|Settings|Control Panel

5. Double Click on Users Accounts

6. Select the Administrators Account from the list.

7. Apply a password.

Then restart the system.

Locking Computer in XP

To lock a computer in XP, as you probably know, you press "L" while holding down "Windows Logo" key on your keyboard. However, if you would like to lock a computer remotely, for example via "Remote Administrator", you don't have this ability.

What you can do instead, is to create a shortcut on remote computer's desktop where

Target %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

Start In %windir%

This is a feature to change users but when you lock the system only the administrator can unlock it. This Feature is More Effective at Remote Computers.

Note: Restarting the Computer helps to unlock.

How to shutdown your System remotely?

“SHUTCMD.EXE” utility that you can use to shutdown or restart your local or remote computer. You must first logon to the computer that you're trying to reboot.

You can shutdown the local computer by running this command:


SHUTCMD /L

To shutdown a computer on your network ("SERVER" the name of the computer you want to shutdown):

SHUTCMD \\SERVER /Y

To shutdown a remote computer connected to the Internet ("131.200.1.1" being the IP address of that computer you want to shutdown).

SHUTCMD \\131.200.1.1 /Y

For Example,
To shut down the local computer in two minutes and display a "The computer is shutting down" message, use the following line in a batch file or type it at a command prompt, and then press ENTER:
shutdown /l /t:120 "The computer is shutting down" /y /c
To cancel the shutdown process, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:
shutdown /l /a /y
• To shut down and restart a remote computer named "Support," use the following line in a batch file or type it at a command prompt, and then press ENTER:
shutdown \\support /r
• To schedule the local computer to shutdown and restart at 10:00 P.M., type the following line at a command prompt, and then press ENTER:
at 22:00 shutdown /l /r /y /c
• To schedule the local computer to shutdown and restart at 6:00 P.M. every weekday, type the following line at a command prompt, and then press ENTER:
at 18:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F shutdown /l /r /y /c

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