Re: Admin Account

From: Stephen Souza (ssouza@.usa.#Niner.net)
Date: 09/13/02


From: Stephen Souza <ssouza@.usa.#Niner.net>
Date: 13 Sep 2002 11:32:05 -0500


"AJ Mondago" <ajdata@pacbell.net> wrote in news:f87701c25aa5
$aed1e490$2ae2c90a@phx.gbl:

> I have a friend who accidentally deleted her admin account
> on her Windows 2000 machine. The only account that is
> left is her 'no privledges' account. She needs to change
> her IP address for a new router. How can this be resolved?
>

Admin account can not be deleted, just renamed.

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 - bootdisk.bin
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.
(c) boot cdrom (ISO) version of b.
(d) another version of b.
(e) commercial software

-- 
Stephen Souza
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