Re: Disabled Administrative Account

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 07/05/03 

Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 14:32:46 -0600

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"Brian Sponcil" <brian-sponcil@uiowa.edu> wrote in message
news:00dd01c3432e$e7de2d80$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>
> I've got a user who, on his home machine, has disabled
> the Administrator account which of course is the only
> account on the machine.  Now there seems to be no way to
> get into the machine.
>
> I've tried using a win2000 CD and going to the recovery
> console which allows me a command line interface to the
> file system but I'm not sure what to do from there.
>
> I tried creating a new directory under documents and
> settings and then copying the ntuser.dat, .dat.log
> and .ini hoping that I could then log into the new acct
> but to no avail.
>
> I don't suppose there's an easy way to edit whatever
> registry file is telling the OS that the acct is
> disabled.....
>
> support.microsoft.com says there's no way to recover from
> this situation but I have to believe that there actually
> is.  Any suggestions?
>
>
> -Brian Sponcil
>
> Network Administrator
> Belin-Blank Center
> The University of Iowa

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