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Thread ID: 49829 2004-10-02 02:31:00 Admin a/c relegated to "Guest"....help!! dibbly (5461) Press F1
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277498 2004-10-03 00:28:00 Here is another solution to the problem of lost/forgotten Administrator passwords. Ive tried it out this morning and it works a treat, and very easy to use.

It works on either NTFS or FAT32, I only tried it on FAT32.

All you really need to remember is the name of the Administrator account, and you can install either a blank or non blank password.

It works by re-writing the Sam file. What you do is download a bootdisk iso image file, burn it to CD, and you're away.

All the details are on this site I found via Experts-Exchange:

home.eunet.no
Terry Porritt (14)
277499 2004-10-03 00:41:00 snap, I think. 45South (4769)
277500 2004-10-03 00:59:00 > All you really need to remember is the name of the
> Administrator account, and you can install either a
> blank or non blank password .

what if there is no account with admin privs??? what would happen then?
dibbly (5461)
277501 2004-10-03 01:07:00 45, Oh dear, I had forgotten your post and didnt re-read it this morning. I thought I had found gold :). Oh well, I've confirmed it works, and that it is easy to do.

I think dibbly that your system must must have had an admin account in there somewhere. Difficult to understand how it could have wiped itself.
Terry Porritt (14)
277502 2004-10-03 01:19:00 yeh I wish I knew Terry, would help prevent it happening again....but if there is a next time at least I have the tools I need to fix the ruddy thing....
AND THEN Dibbly the Geek shall reign!!!!!!!:D :D :D
dibbly (5461)
277503 2004-10-03 01:25:00 what if there is no account with admin privs??? what would happen then?
You don't need know the password & it won't actually show you the old one from memory.
It's also better not to create a new password until back into windows, just let it delete any old ones then reboot
I will stick my favourite password remover boot disk on ftp tomorrow for you to download, it's a no brainer, basically does everything for you all you do is press the enter key a couple of times & bingo.
45South (4769)
277504 2004-10-03 04:04:00 I use http://insert.cd to kill the Admin password.

Works a charm :-)
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