sLiDeR Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 ok, I set up a home laptop for my inlaws. The dada in law then set about trying to set permissions and screwed it all up. He cant remember what admin password he set up so is there a way of getting in & resetting the admin password or recovering it??
kmount Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 Either boot into safe mode and see if the 'default' administrator account is still left unpassworded, or make yourself a disk using something like this. Hope this helps.
jcollings Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 ok, I set up a home laptop for my inlaws. The dada in law then set about trying to set permissions and screwed it all up. He cant remember what admin password he set up so is there a way of getting in & resetting the admin password or recovering it?? Use Ultimate boot cd to reset it.
Joedetic Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html I've used that one before.
FN-GM Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 I would just go with a clean install of XP. Then you know anything else he has changed has been reset.
GlennT Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html I've used that one before. Agreed. Use this, it's great!
kmount Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 For the OP: That's what I linked to in my post so thats 3 votes.
K.C.Leblanc Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 Another vote for offline password editor here. It's on Ultimate Boot disk.
CyberNerd Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 I have the Trinity Rescue Kit set to boot from my USB pendrive. TRK has a winpass script to reset the administrator password. Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. It is possible to boot TRK in three different ways: -as a bootable CD which you can burn yourself from a downloadable isofile -from a USB stick/disk (optionally also a fixed disk), installable from Windows or from the bootable TRK cd -from network over PXE, which requires some modifications on your local network. TRK is a complete commandline based distribution, apart from a few tools like qtparted, links, partition image and midnight commander
dtakias Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 Or you can use password_reset_v2.0 ;-) Its really simple and does the job!password_reset_v2.0.rar
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