Re: Registry hack to disable password change

Terry Caleb wrote:
I used to be able to do this on Windows2000, but do not find the
registry settings or the offsets for Windows2003. What I would like
to do is be able to set a password on an account, and to not allow
anyone at all, including other administrators, to be able to change
the password or the account name. I have searched through pages
upon pages of articles, but have not found anything. Is this still
possible?

Still?

I am pretty sure you could not do that in Windows 2000 either. If someone
is an administrator, they can do whatever they want to anything on the
machine *except* mess with encrypted files (at least not get into them
without the backed-up certificate from the account that encrypted them,
etc.)

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