Re: Changing the Administrator's password

From: Jerry (clancy_at_eartlink.com)
Date: 10/26/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:03:57 -0400

I'm in a bad fix ... I can't find my Administrator password!

I logged into my Administrator account and went to the Control Panel
... from there I went to User Accounts and clicked on my Administrator
account and selected the option to change passwords. A window popped
up with four blank fields in it ... the first field said to input my
user password (which I did) ... the next field said to input my new
password (which I did) the third field said to repeat the new password
(which I did) and the fourth field said to create a password hint ...
which I entered.

After doing all that I hit the change button and I got a box that
popped up and said that my original password was wrong ... I did
everything all over again several times and the same things
happened...now I can't find my Administrator password and I'm locked
out of the administrator side of the computer...PLEASE HELP.

>Yes you can reset or change the administrators password. Reset is done via
>user and groups management. Changing the password is done while logged on as
>the user and using ctrl-alt-delete to change the password. If a users
>password is "reset" the user will not be able to access any EFS files the
>user encrypted. If the password is changed back to the original password
>before it was reset then the user can decrypt the EFS files again. This was
>done to prevent an administrator from resetting a users password in order to
>logon as the user to access their EFS encrypted files and is why you see the
>warning. --- Steve
>
>
>"Jerry" <clancy@eartlink.com> wrote in message
>news:soctl1llbua2tenf1lqedtu3j9cidee2tq@4ax.com...
>>I run XP Professional on my computer and I'm the only person who uses
>> this computer. I have a small hard drive, so XP uses the FAT32 file
>> system. I can't encrypt files using FAT32 as can be done with the
>> NTFS file syatem so I don't have any password issues to deal with here
>> ... I do have a third party program that I use to encrypt files tho.
>> I've recently changed the Administrator's name to something else.
>>
>> That's the background ... now for the question:
>>
>> Is it safe for me to change the Administrator's (now named something
>> else) password? To do this I make my own account part of the
>> Administrator's Group and then try to change the Administrator's
>> password from my account. When I do this I get a warning that I may
>> make changes that are irreparable such as losing passwords, etc.
>> Is this safe to do? Can I change the Administrator's password on a
>> regular basis or is this something best left alone once set?
>>
>> Thanks for any good advice.
>

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