Administrator password changed

[ddshore]

Hi,

I was having some trouble with my PC and I used the recovery console to
fix it. I logged into the recovery console with my password and copied
some files from c:\windows\repair to c:\windows\system32\config
(including the sam file). However, now I cannot log back into my
account with my password, and I can't use the recovery console either,
it says it is the wrong password. I urgently need to get back into my
account, is there some sort of default password taht has been set up?
Any help would be appreciated

 

[Nepatsfan]

(e-mail address removed),

Hi,

I was having some trouble with my PC and I used the recovery
console to fix it. I logged into the recovery console with
my password and copied some files from c:\windows\repair to
c:\windows\system32\config (including the sam file).
However, now I cannot log back into my account with my
password, and I can't use the recovery console either, it
says it is the wrong password. I urgently need to get back
into my account, is there some sort of default password taht
has been set up? Any help would be appreciated

Take a look here,

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Emergency Boot CD
http://ebcd.pcministry.com/

For more info,

How can I gain access to a Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 computer if
I forgot the administrator's password?
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm#3

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[John John]

Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308402 It's a known issue
with some OEM installations.

John

 

[Guest]

Before you go with emergency boot CD, I will advise you to do a little trick
to come up with a quick solution. There is an inbuilt administrator account
in Windows XP named "Administrator". If this is not the same account you are
talking about then you might by lucky and login to that account.

Start your Windows and at Welcome Screen press CTR+ALT+DEL [Twice] to bring
up with a dialog box to enter a user name and password. In user name type
"Administrator" and leave the password blank or type a password if you know
there was any. This is will be the password which is being used at the time
of Windows installation.

Else there will be no other way except EBD. Try as said by others. Hope this
help, let us know.

 

[ddshore]

Thanks a lot,

Before I tried anything, I spent like an hour or so trying to guess the
password, and it finally worked. The password was something we had put
from when we had set up the computer something like 5 years ago, and we
had created this other administrator account, however, it disappeared,
and we never used that other password again,

thanks for your help

RajKohli ha escrito:

Before you go with emergency boot CD, I will advise you to do a little trick
to come up with a quick solution. There is an inbuilt administrator account
in Windows XP named "Administrator". If this is not the same account you are
talking about then you might by lucky and login to that account.

Start your Windows and at Welcome Screen press CTR+ALT+DEL [Twice] to bring
up with a dialog box to enter a user name and password. In user name type
"Administrator" and leave the password blank or type a password if you know
there was any. This is will be the password which is being used at the time
of Windows installation.

Else there will be no other way except EBD. Try as said by others. Hope this
help, let us know.

Hi,

I was having some trouble with my PC and I used the recovery console to
fix it. I logged into the recovery console with my password and copied
some files from c:\windows\repair to c:\windows\system32\config
(including the sam file). However, now I cannot log back into my
account with my password, and I can't use the recovery console either,
it says it is the wrong password. I urgently need to get back into my
account, is there some sort of default password taht has been set up?
Any help would be appreciated

 

[Guest]

You're ALL-WAYS Welcome.

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Please explain the meaning of "ha escrito". Is it Spanish?
My guess is "RajKohli ha escrito" = "RajKohli Ah! Written"

Thanks a lot,

Before I tried anything, I spent like an hour or so trying to guess the
password, and it finally worked. The password was something we had put
from when we had set up the computer something like 5 years ago, and we
had created this other administrator account, however, it disappeared,
and we never used that other password again,

thanks for your help

RajKohli ha escrito:

Before you go with emergency boot CD, I will advise you to do a little trick
to come up with a quick solution. There is an inbuilt administrator account
in Windows XP named "Administrator". If this is not the same account you are
talking about then you might by lucky and login to that account.

Start your Windows and at Welcome Screen press CTR+ALT+DEL [Twice] to bring
up with a dialog box to enter a user name and password. In user name type
"Administrator" and leave the password blank or type a password if you know
there was any. This is will be the password which is being used at the time
of Windows installation.

Else there will be no other way except EBD. Try as said by others. Hope this
help, let us know.

Hi,

I was having some trouble with my PC and I used the recovery console to
fix it. I logged into the recovery console with my password and copied
some files from c:\windows\repair to c:\windows\system32\config
(including the sam file). However, now I cannot log back into my
account with my password, and I can't use the recovery console either,
it says it is the wrong password. I urgently need to get back into my
account, is there some sort of default password taht has been set up?
Any help would be appreciated

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Please explain the meaning of "ha escrito". Is it Spanish?
My guess is "RajKohli ha escrito" = "RajKohli Ah! Written"

Yes it's Spanish. It means "has written" or "wrote."

"RajKohli ha escrito" mean "RajKohli wrote."

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply.

I will highly appreciate if you answer my further question.
How the message heading "RajKohli wrote" automatically changed to Spanish or
ddshore did this.

One more thing - some of newsgroup users has MVP Suffix with their name as
yours. I am really amazed that they helped only 5 peoples then how they
become MVP and some times the MVP automatically being removed from their
names. Some has MVP Logo with their names.

I will highly appreciate your answers.

 

[ddshore]

RajKohli ha escrito:

Thanks for your reply.

I will highly appreciate if you answer my further question.
How the message heading "RajKohli wrote" automatically changed to Spanish or
ddshore did this.

One more thing - some of newsgroup users has MVP Suffix with their name as
yours. I am really amazed that they helped only 5 peoples then how they
become MVP and some times the MVP automatically being removed from their
names. Some has MVP Logo with their names.

I will highly appreciate your answers.

Hey,
the reason this happened is that I'm using google groups to acccess
usenet. Since I am using this in spanish it is shown in spanish
instead of english.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks for your reply.

You're welcome. Glad to help.

I will highly appreciate if you answer my further question.
How the message heading "RajKohli wrote" automatically changed to
Spanish or ddshore did this.

No, nothing is automatically changed to Spanish. The person who posted the
message (ddshore?) configured his news-reading software to show the quote
header the way he wanted it. He is presumably a Spanish speaker, so he likes
to show it that way.

One more thing - some of newsgroup users has MVP Suffix with their
name as yours. I am really amazed that they helped only 5 peoples

"Helped only 5 peoples"? What makes you say that? I can't imagine anyone
who has helped only five people getting an MVP award.

I see that you are using the web interface to participate in this newsgroup,
so perhaps you are seeing something there that gives you this erroneous
idea. I don't use it, so don't know exactly what you're seeing there.

The web interface is the slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method of
using newsgroups there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader,
such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

then how they become MVP and some times the MVP automatically being
removed from their names.

The "MVP" is not automatically removed from anyone's name. Most MVPs (but
not all) identify themselves as MVPs in the newsgroups, but it's their
choice.

Some has MVP Logo with their names.

I personally read all mail and newsgroups in plain text, so if any MVPs do
that, I wouldn't see it. And what happens on the web site, again, I don't
know.

For more information on the MVP program, read here:

 

[Guest]

Thanks for a point-by-point reply.

You're welcome. Glad to help.




No, nothing is automatically changed to Spanish. The person who posted the
message (ddshore?) configured his news-reading software to show the quote
header the way he wanted it. He is presumably a Spanish speaker, so he likes
to show it that way.





"Helped only 5 peoples"? What makes you say that? I can't imagine anyone
who has helped only five people getting an MVP award.

I see that you are using the web interface to participate in this newsgroup,
so perhaps you are seeing something there that gives you this erroneous
idea. I don't use it, so don't know exactly what you're seeing there.

The web interface is the slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method of
using newsgroups there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader,
such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm





The "MVP" is not automatically removed from anyone's name. Most MVPs (but
not all) identify themselves as MVPs in the newsgroups, but it's their
choice.




I personally read all mail and newsgroups in plain text, so if any MVPs do
that, I wouldn't see it. And what happens on the web site, again, I don't
know.

For more information on the MVP program, read here:

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks for a point-by-point reply.

You are again welcome.