Admin Account password Changed

From: Tony Yuhas [MSFT] (tyuhas@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/22/03


From: "Tony Yuhas [MSFT]" <tyuhas@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:15:13 -0800


Hi Steve,

Unfortunately there is no supported way to recover the
administrator password if you have no other administrator
accounts. See this KB Article for more information:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=258289

I know there are some non-Microsoft tools that supposedly
do this, but again, this is not supported.

Sorry,
Tony Yuhas
Microsoft
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>-----Original Message-----
>This sounds very stupid but somehow, the admin password
>has changed on its own. I logged into it this morning
and
>now I cant log in. Can Anyone help me recover the admin
>account? No other Admin users are set up on this machine.
>2000 Pro SP3
>
>Thanks in advance
>.
>



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