Re: Admin lockout

From: karl [x y] (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 08/15/02 

From: "karl [x y]" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:20:55 -0400

"Jim" <atlast@frontier.net> wrote in message
news:27c701c24400$34699a60$3aef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA09...
> I have a customer who disabled the Admin account w/o
> creating another administrator. Now the only way to log
> in is through the guest account. Cannot even get to
> Recovery Console. Any Suggestions

If you're talking local accounts on a non-domain controller, you could
possibly try moving the hard drive to another computer, rename the SAM file,
move the hard drive back and try logging in as administrator with no
password. Other local accounts would probably be removed this way.

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