Re: Forgot Administrator Password

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 08/30/05


Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:04:58 -0700


"Notan" <notan@ddress.com> wrote in message
news:43135E7B.967E7B1B@ddress.com...
> Roger Abell wrote:
> >
> > "Manesh N" <manesh.n@eostek.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23w%23LOoiqFHA.3064@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > > Hello
> > > I forgot my Windows 2003 Administrator Password.
> > > How can i get the password
> > > Regards
> > > Manesh
> > >
> >
> > You cannot "get it", short to cracking the stored hash.
> >
> > The most fast way to reestablish use of the account is to ask
> > someone that knows, or asks another admin to reset yours.
> >
> > Domain or stand-alone machine ?
>
> "The most fast?"
>
> Is that anything like "the fastest?" <g>
>
> Notan

Uh, yea. Probably similar to the US midwest distinction
between simplest and most simple :-)

-- 
Roger


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