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Windows 7 XP mode looses password
Windows 7 XP mode looses password
- XP mode has reset/forgot my logon details. I had previously removed the password in the virtual pc control panel and enabled guest account and had used xpmode for a month with no problems. One day when i booted it up it asked me to log on which was strange as it always loads up straight to the desktop usually. The user name it brought up was XPMUser and no password i tried worked. Also the guest account was disabled. I tried the username/password combination I set up when installing xpmode with no sucess. Using the username XPMUser no password I tried works. I have tried: admin, user, administrator, the password i set up originally with xpmode and my host PC password. I tried the previous passwords in combination with usernames: admin, administrator, user and my host pc username.
When i tried the username Administrator it said "Your account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator "
I cannot log on to XP mode. It seems to have defaulted to some built in password.
Is there any way to get into it or do I have to reinstall xpmode and loose everything?
EDIT: Sorted! if anyone else has this problem, click on settings and disable integration features then use username XPMUser without a password and that will log you on- Edited bylauriewsmith Friday, November 06, 2009 10:57 AM
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When I ready to provide suggestion, I noticed the "EDIT".
As you said, we can disable Integration Features to show it as a general virtual machine so that we can log on the user account. Meanwhile, Administrator account is disabled by default, we can enable it now incase we need to log on it next time.
- Marked As Answer byShaon ShanMSFT, ModeratorThursday, October 22, 2009 3:34 AM
- Unmarked As Answer bylauriewsmith Friday, November 06, 2009 10:52 AM
- Marked As Answer bylauriewsmith Friday, November 06, 2009 10:52 AM
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When I ready to provide suggestion, I noticed the "EDIT".
As you said, we can disable Integration Features to show it as a general virtual machine so that we can log on the user account. Meanwhile, Administrator account is disabled by default, we can enable it now incase we need to log on it next time.
- Marked As Answer byShaon ShanMSFT, ModeratorThursday, October 22, 2009 3:34 AM
- Unmarked As Answer bylauriewsmith Friday, November 06, 2009 10:52 AM
- Marked As Answer bylauriewsmith Friday, November 06, 2009 10:52 AM
- I am having the exact same problem described by lauriewsmith, but disabling Integration Features is not working for me. I never gave XPMUser a password, but when I leave it blank, it still will not log me on. Any other suggestions?
- Start again, and this time enter a password when requested (and remember what it is)!
Bill - I have the same problem! I backed up my XP Mode files:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Virtual PC
C:\Program Files\Windows XP Mode
Then I did a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate using my new retail copy and now that I have installed XP Model and Virtual PC on my new Windows 7 install, I fired up my XP Mode image and it booted great and even saw all of my installed apps like Office but it won't log in with the username and password it used to have! I tried disabling the integration features but that made no difference. After I installed XP Mode onto my new system I ran it once to get everything going and set what I thought was the same password as I had on my old box before I copied over my backed up directories too!
Any ideas?! I backed it up because I had a TON of super important stuff for work!
Thanks!
Alex
EDIT: Just to be clear, I was running Windows 7 RTM with the RC of XP Mode, now I'm running a fresh install of 7 RTM but with XP Mode RTM. Maybe I should not have run XP Mode after install before pasting back my backed up directories? - After my original problem (see post 1) It worked when I used username XPMUser and a blank password.
After logging on I thought it best to create a password this time. So I did and no problems- it logs in in the background using the credentials you've saved so you never see the logon screen.
However a week ago when I started xp mode, it brought up the logon screen. When i tried my password and username (which I know are correct this time!) it refused to log on.
So I did what i did last time, that is: Disable integration features and log on with XMPUser username and blank password.
Except it didn't work this time.
What I eventually found worked was: Disable integration features, log on with XPMUser username but use the password you were using previously.
So if you cant log on, either:
- If you didn't set up a password or removed your password then: Disable integration features and log on with XPMUser username and blank password.
- If you do have a password you've been using sucessfully then: Disable integration features, log on with XPMUser username but use the password you were using previously.
If you were using a password but forgot it then I don't know any way round that.
Hope it'll be of some help! - Same issue i had. Turning of the integration feature corrected my problem.
- Proposed As Answer byPierre-Marie Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:19 AM
