Monday, February 14, 2011

Recovery Console Password - how to disable check

Sometimes you can't use the Windows XP Recovery Console because it will ask for Administrator password and not recognize your correct password. This registry edit causes the Recovery Console not to ask for a password. This works for both XP Home and XP Professional.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Setup \ RecoveryConsole

Set the DWORD SecurityLevel value to 1