VMWare Player XP Mode - Administrator password?

Hello-

New to the forum and hope that this is possible? I had installed VMWare and applied Windows XP Professional of fashion.  Ran it for a while (1 year +) no problem at all - very good product!

Recently I went to start my Windows XP virtual machine and it comes back to ask administrator password to login? What the? Username - administrator password -? I've never given this password during installation so I wonder what it is, or is there a file I can delete / watch to tell what he wants? I tried to do a restore Windows 7 system to a week before - no luck... probably because all the parameters of the virtual machine are in Documents which don't is changed during a restore.

Can not enter in the virtual machine and I have one of my key installed programs-

Concerning

George

This isn't in itself a problem of VMware.  In other words, it makes no difference if you use Windows in a Virtual Machine or a physical Machine, the resolution is the same, and it's really a matter of Windows user.  If you do not know the account names and or passwords, then you can use a utility like Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to reset the passwords of password empty.  I use it on XP through 7 (including Windows Server operating systems) and it works like a charm providing you do not use encryption.

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