Re: How to recover administration password

From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:35:10 -0700

Amz wrote:

I can't login to any accounts to be able to attempt this. I am getting stuck at the Windows Login screen, and when I input my only known user name and password, I receive the error message 'Your account has been disabled. Please see your administrator'. I have tried accessing via the inbuilt system administrator profile, however the blank password is not accepted and I know of no other administrator password (I purchased this laptop secondhand 18 months ago, through the trading post). Can you help me please?

You posted to a very old closed thread. Next time make a new post. Use NTpasswd to change the built-in Administrator password to a blank.

NTpasswd - http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Malke
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