Passwords have been placed on all accounts

[Guest]

I'm at a school library and students have placed passwords on the accounts
here, and the new librarian does not know the previous password for the
administrator account. Is there any way I can remove the passwords without re
installing Windows?

 

[Jerry]

There is a program ARISKKEY.EXE that will convert the ***'s to letters
and/or numbers so you can view the password. Be careful whne using it.

 

[Galen]

In Yellow Man <Yellow (e-mail address removed)> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I'm at a school library and students have placed passwords on the
accounts here, and the new librarian does not know the previous
password for the administrator account. Is there any way I can remove
the passwords without re installing Windows?

Is this the password (account password) that you're looking for?

Password Problems:
http://kgiii.info/windows/2k-XP/security/password_problems.html

That will enable you to reset the password.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Steven L Umbach]

If the computers are part of an Active Directory domain then you have a
couple options such as using Restricted Groups or Group Policy startup
script to add a domain user account to the local administrators group of any
domain computer to allow access to logon as a local administrator. The
domain admins group by default should be in the local administrators group
of all domain computers but I don't recommend that a domain admin ever logon
to a workstation domain computer with his credentials unless the computer is
known to be 100 percent secure which is unlikely in a place like a library.
FYI for XP SP2 computer the Shared Computer Toolkit makes it easy to
lockdown computers in public places that are not part on an Active Directory
domain. See the link below if interested. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx --- Shared
Computer Toolkit for XP SP2

 

[coal_brona]

Hi,

Yes, it is really possible. The Active@ password changer tool can help
in this case. It is small utility that can reset lost or forgotten
password. I'm sure that will fix the situation.

http://www.password-changer.com/