Re: Administrator gets locked out

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:21:33 -0600

"Ed Gregory" <eg@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#PtdOMa7EHA.128@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> I have a Win2000 Pro machine that is allowing the administrator account to
> be locked out. I thought that with Win2000, XP, 2003 the administrator
> account couldn't be locked out. This comes from MS tech articles. The
> user, I guess typed the password incorrect too many times and now we are
> unable to login with the administrator account. There are only two
accounts
> on the system. Administrator and Guest.

Well, most of us think that it cannot be locked.

Is it possible something CHANGED the password?

> How do I unlock or enable the administrator account? I don't mean I do I
> recover a password, but how do I disable the account locked out flag that
> must be set in the user?

You are basically stuck with trying to hack your own
SAM.

Googling the obvious (or someone will post a link)
will get you help on cracking your own SAM...

Something like (untested): [ "lost password" microsoft: ]

That last term "microsoft:" (with colon) is a Google keyword
for their special web-wide "Microsoft collection". 

-- 
Herb Martin
>
> Thanks.
>
>