[windows2000] Re: administrator password

  • From: "Jonathan Kadoo" <jkadoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:39:35 -0400

Thanks to everyone that responded.  I will try this out!  On all my
office machines I have a backup admin password but what can I do about
user's home machine that technically I am not supposed to be responsible
for.

Thanks again sooo much

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: September 29, 2003 10:54 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: administrator password



Download the utility from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/,
which is free.  I have successfully used this many times when I first
joined this company to "get in to" a number of W2K laptops that hadn't
been used for a long time because no one knew any login passwords, or
had the skills to rebuild the laptops.  

As Ray pointed out always have a backup account to get in.  I personally
have my own local administrator account on every NT/2000 pc and server,
as well as the local built in one.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: Costanzo, Ray [mailto:rcostanzo@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 September 2003 15:31
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: administrator password


Have the person log in as the backup administrator account that he setup
as soon as he installed the OS, so that in the event of forgetting the
administrator password, he could log in with the other account and reset
it.

Ray at work

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Kadoo [mailto:jkadoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 


Does anyone know of a way to reset the administrator password on a
Windows 2k pro machine?  I have a user that someone managed to screw up
their admin password on their home machine and now they can't get into
it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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