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Ben
I've forgotten the admininstrator password on my home PC.
Does anyone know what I need to do in this case?
Ben
Does anyone know what I need to do in this case?
Ben
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John Savill
There are a number of options, 3rd party software from
http://www.winternals.com allows this and l0phtcrack will eventually crack
your Administrator password. Below is 1 method (there are a few at
http://www.windows2000faq.com)
A. The instructions below require a second installation of NT on the machine
you have forgotten the password to. I uses the srvany.exe resource kit
utility.
Install a second copy of NT onto the machine into a difference dir/drive (it
only has to be a minimal installation) and boot into this installation
Copy the srvany.exe from the resource kit into a dir, e.g. c:\temp
Start regedt32
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and select the root
From the Open menu select "Load Hive"
Move to %systemroot%\system32\config of the main NT installation, i.e. if
your main installation (the one whose password you are trying to change) is
installed at d:\winnt you would move to d:\winnt\system32\config
Select System and click Open
You will be asked for a key name, enter Mainreg and click OK
Select the "Select" branch and write down the Default value, e.g. 0xn, e.g.
0x1. This will be used to load the ControlSet00n
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Mainreg\ControlSet00n\Services\Spooler and take a
note of the ImagePath value (it will usually be
%SystemRoot%\system32\spoolss.exe).
Change ImagePath to c:\temp\srvany.exe (or where ever you copied the file
to), click OK
Move to Parameters and add a Value of type REG_SZ called Application. Once
added double click the new value and set to %systemroot%\system32\net.exe
Add another Value of type REG_SZ called AppParameters. Once added double
click the new value and set to "user Administrator password".
Move back to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Mainreg and select "Unload Hive" from the
open menu. Click Yes to the confirmation
You should now reboot and boot off of your original NT installation. Wait a
few minutes and then logon as the administrator with password password.
You now need to correct the changes made
Start Regedt32.exe
Move to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Spooler\Parameters and
delete Application and AppParameters values.
Move down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Spoole and
change ImagePath back to its original value
(%SystemRoot%\system32\spoolss.exe)
You may now delete the second installation of NT if you wish and remove it
from the boot menu (edit boot.ini after removing the hidden, read only and
system attributes attrib c:\boot.ini -r -s -h).
All this actually does is change the spooler service to use the SRVANY.EXE
program which runs NET as the service with parameters "user Administrator
password", which is the same as net user Administrator password which is a
way to change the password. Check the resource kit for more information on
SRVANY.
John
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.windows2000faq.com
http://www.winternals.com allows this and l0phtcrack will eventually crack
your Administrator password. Below is 1 method (there are a few at
http://www.windows2000faq.com)
A. The instructions below require a second installation of NT on the machine
you have forgotten the password to. I uses the srvany.exe resource kit
utility.
Install a second copy of NT onto the machine into a difference dir/drive (it
only has to be a minimal installation) and boot into this installation
Copy the srvany.exe from the resource kit into a dir, e.g. c:\temp
Start regedt32
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and select the root
From the Open menu select "Load Hive"
Move to %systemroot%\system32\config of the main NT installation, i.e. if
your main installation (the one whose password you are trying to change) is
installed at d:\winnt you would move to d:\winnt\system32\config
Select System and click Open
You will be asked for a key name, enter Mainreg and click OK
Select the "Select" branch and write down the Default value, e.g. 0xn, e.g.
0x1. This will be used to load the ControlSet00n
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Mainreg\ControlSet00n\Services\Spooler and take a
note of the ImagePath value (it will usually be
%SystemRoot%\system32\spoolss.exe).
Change ImagePath to c:\temp\srvany.exe (or where ever you copied the file
to), click OK
Move to Parameters and add a Value of type REG_SZ called Application. Once
added double click the new value and set to %systemroot%\system32\net.exe
Add another Value of type REG_SZ called AppParameters. Once added double
click the new value and set to "user Administrator password".
Move back to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Mainreg and select "Unload Hive" from the
open menu. Click Yes to the confirmation
You should now reboot and boot off of your original NT installation. Wait a
few minutes and then logon as the administrator with password password.
You now need to correct the changes made
Start Regedt32.exe
Move to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Spooler\Parameters and
delete Application and AppParameters values.
Move down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Spoole and
change ImagePath back to its original value
(%SystemRoot%\system32\spoolss.exe)
You may now delete the second installation of NT if you wish and remove it
from the boot menu (edit boot.ini after removing the hidden, read only and
system attributes attrib c:\boot.ini -r -s -h).
All this actually does is change the spooler service to use the SRVANY.EXE
program which runs NET as the service with parameters "user Administrator
password", which is the same as net user Administrator password which is a
way to change the password. Check the resource kit for more information on
SRVANY.
John
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.windows2000faq.com
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Donald Link
Pray because you will have a near impossible task. I had this problem and
only found commercial programs that professed to do it. No try first and
buy later. The problem was on a laptop with only a CDrom and no floppy disk
and was to old to boot to the cdrom. Since it belonged to someone else I
did not buy a floppy to see if the disk could be reformatted with new
install of operating system. Does anyone have the awnser if you do not have
administrative password can the drive be reformatted and new install from
the boot drive.
only found commercial programs that professed to do it. No try first and
buy later. The problem was on a laptop with only a CDrom and no floppy disk
and was to old to boot to the cdrom. Since it belonged to someone else I
did not buy a floppy to see if the disk could be reformatted with new
install of operating system. Does anyone have the awnser if you do not have
administrative password can the drive be reformatted and new install from
the boot drive.
J
Jogesh Kumar
what is the OS??
XP or PRO ??
XP or PRO ??
J
Jogesh Kumar
what is the OS
XP HOME or XP PRO ??
XP HOME or XP PRO ??
-----Original Message-----
Pray because you will have a near impossible task. I had this problem and
only found commercial programs that professed to do it. No try first and
buy later. The problem was on a laptop with only a CDrom and no floppy disk
and was to old to boot to the cdrom. Since it belonged to someone else I
did not buy a floppy to see if the disk could be reformatted with new
install of operating system. Does anyone have the awnser if you do not have
administrative password can the drive be reformatted and new install from
the boot drive.
.
D
Donald Link
Does it make much difference? Either way is going to be impossible to fix
without major expense.
without major expense.
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