Windows cmd syntax error net user password
02:26 08 Nov 2012

I've been a bit stupid and managed to ruin my friend's account up a bit. What happened was: I was going to change the name of his user from "Firstname Surname" to "Firstname Example Surname". To do this, I went into the cmd on his laptop as an admin (windows button -> cmd -> ctrl+shift+enter). Then I wrote

net user USER fullname:"Firstname Example Surname"

What I didn't realize was that I forgot the "/" before "fullname", and so I changed the password of the user, rather than changing the fullname. The problem now is... we can't figure out what the password for the account is. We have tried out practically everything.. fullname, fullname:"Firstname Example Lastname", fullname:, fullname:"Firstname, Lastname", etc. etc., but nothing works. So, since the syntax for changing the password for a user through the cmd is

net user USER PASSWORD

and I used ":" and "/" and "(space)" the syntax somehow got messed up, and we can't figure out the password. Needless to say, the old password does not work any more. Anyone know what the account password would be when I messed up the syntax like I did? Cheers

Operating system: Windows 7

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