How do I recover/reset the admin password of a Virtual PC instance

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Published on 2009-06-11T17:52:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 9:23 UTC
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I was given a VPC file which belonged to an employee who left our company. The VPC has important code and data. Anyways, I started up the instance in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, but can't logon because we don't know any user names or passwords for the machine. How can I reset the Administrator password on the virtual machine?

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