Re: If you have lost/forgot local admin password read this

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 06/20/04 

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 03:00:55 GMT

Daniel Petri has a good link about this product also that may be helpful to less
expereinced users. --- Steve

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

"Me" <Not@home.com> wrote in message news:40d48443_2@127.0.0.1...
> A number of requests in this group seem to relate to people not knowing or
> forgetting the administrator password for a system, whether it be a Server
> or a Desktop. There are several third-party applications that can assist
> with this task, but they are often very costly. Fortunately there is an
> alternative, that is free and to date in all the times I have used it, I
> have never had one failure. I recommend setting the password to blank using
> this tool and then upon first log on with the blank password changing to
> something more secure.
>
> The program in question can be found at:
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
>
> In the course of my job I have found this tool invaluable. I normally use it
> on machines where the bright spark of a user (Normally a developer) has
> removed the machine from the domain and then remembers that he changed the
> local admin password as well!
>
> Follow the instruction implicitly and you should have the same success rate
> that I have had.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
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