Re: Password question

The only way he could have deleted the Admin account would have been to be logged on as an Administrator. In other words there is still an administrator account on the machine. Try this:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

As for the Word docs try asking in the Office group or search the net for password crackers for Word docs. These ones might be hard to crack. You can also slave the drive in another machine if you just want to retrieve files then wipe the drive and reinstall the operating system.

Now, I don't want to lecture you, and I know that the user might have had a valid reason to be an Administrator or that he could have used a password utility to gain access to the Administrator account. But if none of these apply you will have to review the security measures in your organization. NO users should have Administrator privileges unless absolutely necessary!

John

Chris Hall wrote:

We have an employee that is no longer with the company. He deleted the local
administrator account and his pc is not joined to the domain. He also has
two Word docs that are password protected. I need to be able to access his
computer and these documents. Any suggestions? Tools/utilities?



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