Administrator Account disabled

[Guest]

XP Pro, SP2, fully updated.

Hi, trying to secure my laptop I removed my user account from the
Administrator group and have managed to lock out the Administrator account
due to entering the wrong password a number of times.

So, I cannot run any programs which would allow me to reset the Admin
account,is there any way I can solve this withouth a re-build? Is it possible
to use the system re-store to return it to a working state before the account
was locked out? Have tried this already going into safe mode (F8) but did not
appear to work.

Any ideas happily received!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Original Administrator Account Does Not Appear During Friendly Logon Method
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281992&Product=winxp

Enable Administrator account on Welcome Screen
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_admin_ok.htm

Administrator unable to unlock a "locked" computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242917/en-us


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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| XP Pro, SP2, fully updated.
|
| Hi, trying to secure my laptop I removed my user account from the
| Administrator group and have managed to lock out the Administrator account
| due to entering the wrong password a number of times.
|
| So, I cannot run any programs which would allow me to reset the Admin
| account,is there any way I can solve this withouth a re-build? Is it possible
| to use the system re-store to return it to a working state before the account
| was locked out? Have tried this already going into safe mode (F8) but did not
| appear to work.
|
| Any ideas happily received!

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I'll try tip 2 later.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, all this did was give me the option to log on as the Administrator.
What I need to do is be able to enable the account without being part of the
Administrators group. A post from yesterday has given me some options, I'll
update when I've tried that.

 

[Guest]

Thanks to Malke, your program from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
worked fine! Suprised at how easy it is to bypass security!

 

[Malke]

Thanks to Malke, your program from
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ worked fine! Suprised at how
easy it is to bypass security!

Glad that NTpasswd worked for you. It isn't "my" program, though - can't
take any credit for Petter's brilliance.

You shouldn't really be surprised; any computer running any operating
system can be accessed by someone with 1) physical access; 2) time; 3)
skill; 4) tools. See "The 10 Immutable Laws of Security":

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/essays/10imlaws.mspx

Malke