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Question

MINI WINDOWS XP DONT WORK ON HIRENS CD 15.02 WINDOWS 10

May 17, 2016 9:21AM PDT

I recently made a usb stick with hirens boot cd 15.02 and i wanted to change my password. I tried the offline password editor but apparently it cannot find the path for SAM (if anyone can help with that i will be very pleased too) Then i tried to use Mini Windows XP and when i select it, it load the bar and goes to the windows xp logo when the cursor appears after 1 or 2 seconds my laptop turns off!!! Please help!

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Clarification Request
Before I test this for you.
May 17, 2016 5:12PM PDT

I have a test machine that Mini XP should be fine on. It's my old 2009 Sony with 2GB RAM. XP did fail on 4+GB memory machines. This is not anything new.

So that I can test as it runs W10 fine and I can make the boot CD.

But is there really some other question here? That is, is your real question about how to reset the password?

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How to get password
May 18, 2016 12:29AM PDT

My real question is how to get a password from a local user. But since nothing else has worked for me i was trying to find out why doesnt windows xp dont boot? If you know how to crack a windows password please tell me

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Sorry no. Even I don't know that.
May 18, 2016 10:00AM PDT

I've stuck with resetting passwords since getting a password would take hours or more to crack such.

Sorry, I can't help you there.