Re: Admin Password Recovery

From: Stephen Souza (ssouza@.usa.#Niner.net)
Date: 08/19/02 

From: Stephen Souza <ssouza@.usa.#Niner.net>
Date: 19 Aug 2002 12:22:24 -0500

"tj woods" <twoods@roxbury.org> wrote in
news:3f3301c24789$4836fc90$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11:

> Hi,
> I work for a public school system and one of the kids
> changed the Admin password aon a windows 2000, SP2
> computer. We have policy in place on our domain, but this
> was done before the computer joined. We have a lot of
> software installed and would like to not have to reinstall
> it all. Any ideas on how to recover the password? Thanks.

Subject: Re: forgot admin password

a. http://www.sysinternals.com - ERD Commander 2002
b. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
c. http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/
d. http://www.nmrc.org/files/snt/index.html
e. http://www.sunbelt-software.com - NTAccess
f. http://www.2600slc.org/texts/SAM_Files.txt

These tools will allow a reset of the password
without knowing what the orginal was.
All require a re-boot of the system.

I have used options a, b, c, d. I like ERD Commander
but it is expensive, I would suggest trying
(b) ntpasswd, it does work and is free.

For a school system I would suggest getting ERD commander,
expensive but good for repair of crashed systems. 

-- 
Stephen Souza
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