Weird XP Login problem

Post by **117** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:44 pm

A mate recently installed XP on his home PC, everything was running fine until he turned the PC on yesty. His login screen now shows his normal login (but password protected, he's never used a password), and a login name called ASP.net (which is alsp password-protected). As both logins are password-protected he now has no way of logging into his PC, and no idea how it got like that! Any ideas?

Post by **fac51** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:55 am

he must have disbaled his own account somehow and just left with the asp one. dunno how to access that one though

Post by **117** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:20 pm

but what is the asp account? and where did it come from? [i][color=#006688]So, i've decided to take my WAP back underground, to stop it falling into the wrong hands[/color][/i]

Post by **fac51** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:25 am

not really sure. there is an asp account set up when you install xp. if you check user accounts there is your main one, a guest and asp. you shopuld really disable the guest account as it provides a back door into your pc if it got nicked etc. all i can think is he has somehow deactivated the guest and his main account.

mkush · Post by **mkush** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 4:01 pm

Seems all he could do really is to do an over the top reinstall of windows. Then av least he can access his data. Fooking wierd 1 how the hell did he manage that! ?

Post by **117** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:40 pm

dunno he reckons it was just like that one day when he turned it on, but i can't vouch for that!

mkush · Post by **mkush** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:54 pm

well yeah im pretty sure that u would get a big warning to say do u really want to delete admin account?

:lol:

Post by **117** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:29 am

think you guys have misunderstood, his main account is still there, it's just password protected now

Post by **fac51** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:42 am

oh so he has set a password and forgotton it? well there are a couple of extremely comlex ways of gaining some access such as booting into dos (probably best googling as i know it can be done but now how) but i would say he's pretty fubared

Post by **117** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:34 am

no he reckons he hasnt set a pword, and he'd tried all his normal pwords to no avail [i][color=#006688]So, i've decided to take my WAP back underground, to stop it falling into the wrong hands[/color][/i]

mkush · Post by **mkush** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:02 am

Oh right, well still don't know how he managed that. I still reckon his best option is to do a reinstall over the top of the other as if will only lose installed programs. I thought the only way me accessing xp through dos is by the repair control panel ting which u need pass for.

Post by **117** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:42 pm

he did a reinstall of XP last nite and apparently all is well again now

Post by **fac51** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:23 pm

good stuff

Post by **117** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:55 pm

cheers for the info anyway guys

vinnieza · Post by **vinnieza** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:45 am

That asp appeared there due to updating the .net framework probably. I never got my account password protected when it happened to me, just two accounts appeared. But that was fixed by going into the account settings and disabling asp.net account or something.

Too late now, but if someone has a similar problem