Re: Lost local admin password
From: Eric Denekamp (ericd_at_infosupport.com)
Date: 10/04/05
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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:36:35 -0700
do you have access to the server? do you want to reset the password to something
you know, or do you want to recover the old password, those are two different
things.
If you have physical access to the box you can reboot it with for instance
ERD commander from Wininternals and reset the admi password. (look out, it
will corrupt the certificates that are present in the personal store of
that admin (including de recovery agent certificate)
there are several other tools that claim to do the same thing, but I had
bad experiences with for instance te famous linux boot flop that claims to
do the job, but it corrupted my registry in a sence that I could not promote
my machine anymore to a DC or demote it from DC, and it was consistent in
doint so.
s first test the tool you are going to use first on a similar test OS.
good luck
Eric
> Hi,
> I lost my local administrator password. It is stand alone windows
> server
> 2003 standard edition with SP1.
> "Administrator" is the one and only one userID with admin rights. Any
> way to get back the password without reinstall the OS?
>
> thanks
>
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