Re: Lost local admin password

From: ck (samk_at_pconlin.net)
Date: 10/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 20:59:21 +0800

Hi Eric,
I want to clear the password so that make it blank and let me able logon
again without any password.
thanks

"Eric Denekamp" <ericd@infosupport.com> wrote in message
news:fb20d2fe1fb7d8c79708269a6d12@news.microsoft.com...
> 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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