Re: Admin Password
From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com)
Date: 10/17/02
- Next message: Valentin: "Access denied to Power Scheme"
- Previous message: Ron: "OE Removed Access"
- In reply to: David Campbell: "Admin Password"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
From: "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:18:40 +0200
David Campbell wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Is it possible to recover the administrator password? I'm
> >working on a computer and the owner has forgotten the
> >password.
>
> You don't have too many options with this problem, but
> I'll tell you what I know.
>
> SOLUTION #1
>
> Assuming you're running Windows XP Professional, and
> another user account with administrator privledges exists
> on the computer, you can use that account to reset the
> administrator password. Explore:
>
> Control Panel|User Accounts
>
> for the screen which allows you to reset the password.
>
> SOLUTION #2
>
> If the administrator made a Password Reset Disk, use that
> disc to revert the password to a previous, known state.
>
> If you don't have either of the conditions for using these
> solutions, I don't think there's anything you can do.
Hi
Oh, yes, there are things you can do:
Several options to reset a forgotten admin password:
Subject: Re: Admin Password
From: Stephen Souza <ssouza@.usa.#Niner.net>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.security
Message-ID: <Xns929B9FA98FC1AStephenSouzausanet@209.189.89.243>
<qoute>
Subject: Re: forgot admin password
a. http://www.sysinternals.com - ERD Commander 2002
b. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
c. http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/
d. http://www.nmrc.org/files/snt/index.html - bootdisk.bin
e. http://www.nttoolbox.com/public/tools/LinNT.zip
f. http://www.sunbelt-software.com - NTAccess
g. http://www.2600slc.org/texts/SAM_Files.txt
h. http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm See Tip # 1984
These tools will allow a reset of the admin password
without knowing what the orginal was. you use one of
the suggested options to boot the system and alter
the password. WARNING: use at your own risk.
I have used options a, b, c, d. e. I like ERD Commander
but it is expensive, I would suggest trying ntpasswd
(a) boot cdrom
(b) ntpasswd, it does work and is free. (single disk)
(c) boot cdrom (ISO) version of b.(must create cdrom)
(d/e) another boot disk version of b. (single disk)
(f) commercial software (multiple disks)
(g) manual procedure
Stephen Souza
</qoute>
-- torgeir Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI Porsgrunn Norway
- Next message: Valentin: "Access denied to Power Scheme"
- Previous message: Ron: "OE Removed Access"
- In reply to: David Campbell: "Admin Password"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Relevant Pages
|
