Win XP - Password recovery

[ibsys]

Hi, I have a little problem with one of my clients VP who thought that
he could administer his laptop.
He was playing with the changing his laptop from domain to the
workgroup and as a result lose all the user ids associated with this
computer including a local and domain Administrator IDs – I had to
give him these passwords a while ago.

Right now the laptop is in workgroup and no id can be logged on to the
laptop ïŒ.

There is a couple of thing I would like to attempt to do:
- somehow recover an admin id to the system so I can recover the data
- Is there any way to reinitialize the system w/o installation a new
Windows XP

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi, I have a little problem with one of my clients VP who thought that
he could administer his laptop.
He was playing with the changing his laptop from domain to the
workgroup and as a result lose all the user ids associated with this
computer including a local and domain Administrator IDs - I had to
give him these passwords a while ago.

Right now the laptop is in workgroup and no id can be logged on to the
laptop ?.

There is a couple of thing I would like to attempt to do:
- somehow recover an admin id to the system so I can recover the data
- Is there any way to reinitialize the system w/o installation a new
Windows XP
======================
Changing from domain to workgroup has no effect on local
logon accounts/passwords. They remain intact.

You cannot recover Windows passwords.

Your client can try and log on in Safe Mode: Press Ctrl+Alt+Del
twice, then use administrator with a blank password.

If this does not work then there is always the Nordahl boot disk:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

The underlying issue is a lack of foresight: I'm sure your
client has at least two sets of keys for his car, for obvious
reasons. In the same way he should maintain two local
admin accounts, with known passwords.

 

[Kayman]

Hi ibsys;

I am curious as to how you managed displaying the sad-face icon on a
newsgroup post. I tried but was unsuccessful.

Cheers..............Kayman