Re: Help! Administrator password problems

From: Ritchie (ritchie@commanddoline.co.uk)
Date: 11/07/02 

From: "Ritchie" <ritchie@commanddoline.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:47:57 -0000

"Tom" <webview@rcn.com> wrote in message news:3dc9acd7$0$74251$45beb828@newscene.com...
> Does anyone know where the administrator's password is kept (like what

On nt4/w2k --> c:\winnt\system32\config\sam

Renaming/deleting, either by way of NTFSDOS PRO or parallel install (for NTFS
partitions) will cause the OS to create a new SAM. Log on as administrator,
NULL password.

Good luck ;) 

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