User Locked Out

[Guest]

Windows XP Pro

Name1 has admin privileges.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Event Properties:

Logon Failure:
Reason: Account locked out
User Name: Name1
Domain: Name2
Logon Type: 2

Logon Process: User32
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: Name2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-Name1 Properties:

Name1




Full name:


Description:


User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]

User cannot change password

X Password never expires

Account is disabled
Account is locked out [GHOSTED]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-NET USER NAME1 (command):

User name Name1
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country code 000 (System Default)
Account active Yes
Account expires Never

Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
Password expires Never
Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
Password required Yes
User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Debugger Users
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is the info! The account's password was not set to expire, and
everything looks right, except that it does not appear in Control Panel/User
Accounts or the Welcome Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.

What's the problem? What caused this? And most importantly HOW DO I FIX IT?

Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost every month? This
is so focking retarded!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are some features I
expect be included in the upcoming Windows Vista:

1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat by the user) with
the next Windows release, and have the output logged into the registry.
3. Make ALL files excutable.
4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done already!
6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very long hex strings,
so as to hide from the user, among others, the biometric fart logs.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078

You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change Your Expired Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| Windows XP Pro
|
| Name1 has admin privileges.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| - Event Properties:
|
| Logon Failure:
| Reason: Account locked out
| User Name: Name1
| Domain: Name2
| Logon Type: 2
|
| Logon Process: User32
| Authentication Package: Negotiate
| Workstation Name: Name2
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| -Name1 Properties:
|
| Name1
|
|
|
|
| Full name:
|
|
| Description:
|
|
| User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]
|
| User cannot change password
|
| X Password never expires
|
| Account is disabled
| Account is locked out [GHOSTED]
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| -NET USER NAME1 (command):
|
| User name Name1
| Full Name
| Comment
| User's comment
| Country code 000 (System Default)
| Account active Yes
| Account expires Never
|
| Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password expires Never
| Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password required Yes
| User may change password Yes
|
| Workstations allowed All
| Logon script
| User profile
| Home directory
| Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM
|
| Logon hours allowed All
|
| Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Debugger Users
| Global Group memberships *None
| The command completed successfully.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This is the info! The account's password was not set to expire, and
| everything looks right, except that it does not appear in Control Panel/User
| Accounts or the Welcome Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.
|
| What's the problem? What caused this? And most importantly HOW DO I FIX IT?
|
| Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost every month? This
| is so focking retarded!
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are some features I
| expect be included in the upcoming Windows Vista:
|
| 1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
| 2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat by the user) with
| the next Windows release, and have the output logged into the registry.
| 3. Make ALL files excutable.
| 4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
| 5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done already!
| 6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very long hex strings,
| so as to hide from the user, among others, the biometric fart logs.

 

[Guest]

None of the links you provided help me in any way. I have SP2 and all the
updates.
The locked out account does not appear in the control panel or the logon
screen.

Format it is then. It will take me a month to reinstall all programs and
plugins.

Thanks anyway.

Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078

You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change Your Expired Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| Windows XP Pro
|
| Name1 has admin privileges.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| - Event Properties:
|
| Logon Failure:
| Reason: Account locked out
| User Name: Name1
| Domain: Name2
| Logon Type: 2
|
| Logon Process: User32
| Authentication Package: Negotiate
| Workstation Name: Name2
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| -Name1 Properties:
|
| Name1
|
|
|
|
| Full name:
|
|
| Description:
|
|
| User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]
|
| User cannot change password
|
| X Password never expires
|
| Account is disabled
| Account is locked out [GHOSTED]
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| -NET USER NAME1 (command):
|
| User name Name1
| Full Name
| Comment
| User's comment
| Country code 000 (System Default)
| Account active Yes
| Account expires Never
|
| Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password expires Never
| Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password required Yes
| User may change password Yes
|
| Workstations allowed All
| Logon script
| User profile
| Home directory
| Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM
|
| Logon hours allowed All
|
| Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Debugger Users
| Global Group memberships *None
| The command completed successfully.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This is the info! The account's password was not set to expire, and
| everything looks right, except that it does not appear in Control Panel/User
| Accounts or the Welcome Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.
|
| What's the problem? What caused this? And most importantly HOW DO I FIX IT?
|
| Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost every month? This
| is so focking retarded!
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are some features I
| expect be included in the upcoming Windows Vista:
|
| 1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
| 2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat by the user) with
| the next Windows release, and have the output logged into the registry.
| 3. Make ALL files excutable.
| 4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
| 5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done already!
| 6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very long hex strings,
| so as to hide from the user, among others, the biometric fart logs.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Try booting into safe mode and then try logging on as administrator and if
you can access the account properties for the locked out account and uncheck
that the account is locked out. To find which users are local administrators
run the command net localgroup administrators. If nothing seems to help you
could try putting the hard drive in another computer or boot from something
like Bart's PE and copy the sam file from the windows\repair folder to the
windows\system32\config folder though I suggest you rename the sam file in
the windows\system32\config folder first. If that works you may have a
different password in the sam file you copied over since it may be the one
from the original installation of the operating system though there are
tools that can reset the administrator password if you forgot it and I think
the same tool may have an option to unlock locked accounts though I am not
positive as I have not used it for a while. See the links below if you are
interested in trying that. --- Steve

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

None of the links you provided help me in any way. I have SP2 and all the
updates.
The locked out account does not appear in the control panel or the logon
screen.

Format it is then. It will take me a month to reinstall all programs and
plugins.

Thanks anyway.

Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078

You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change Your Expired
Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| Windows XP Pro
|
| Name1 has admin privileges.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| - Event Properties:
|
| Logon Failure:
| Reason: Account locked out
| User Name: Name1
| Domain: Name2
| Logon Type: 2
|
| Logon Process: User32
| Authentication Package: Negotiate
| Workstation Name: Name2
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| -Name1 Properties:
|
| Name1
|
|
|
|
| Full name:
|
|
| Description:
|
|
| User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]
|
| User cannot change password
|
| X Password never expires
|
| Account is disabled
| Account is locked out [GHOSTED]
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| -NET USER NAME1 (command):
|
| User name Name1
| Full Name
| Comment
| User's comment
| Country code 000 (System Default)
| Account active Yes
| Account expires Never
|
| Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password expires Never
| Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password required Yes
| User may change password Yes
|
| Workstations allowed All
| Logon script
| User profile
| Home directory
| Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM
|
| Logon hours allowed All
|
| Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Debugger Users
| Global Group memberships *None
| The command completed successfully.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This is the info! The account's password was not set to expire, and
| everything looks right, except that it does not appear in Control
Panel/User
| Accounts or the Welcome Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.
|
| What's the problem? What caused this? And most importantly HOW DO I
FIX IT?
|
| Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost every month?
This
| is so focking retarded!
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are some features
I
| expect be included in the upcoming Windows Vista:
|
| 1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
| 2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat by the user)
with
| the next Windows release, and have the output logged into the registry.
| 3. Make ALL files excutable.
| 4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
| 5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done already!
| 6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very long hex
strings,
| so as to hide from the user, among others, the biometric fart logs.

 

[Nepatsfan]

Have you checked the Properties of the user account?
Go to Start -> Run and enter lusrmgmt.msc in the Open box.
Click OK.
Open the Users folder.
See if the account in question has been disabled.

Nepatsfan

None of the links you provided help me in any way. I have
SP2 and all the updates.
The locked out account does not appear in the control panel
or the logon screen.

Format it is then. It will take me a month to reinstall all
programs and plugins.

Thanks anyway.

Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078

You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change
Your Expired Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Windows XP Pro

Name1 has admin privileges.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Event Properties:

Logon Failure:
Reason: Account locked out
User Name: Name1
Domain: Name2
Logon Type: 2

Logon Process: User32
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: Name2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-Name1 Properties:

Name1




Full name:


Description:


User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]

User cannot change password

X Password never expires

Account is disabled
Account is locked out [GHOSTED]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-NET USER NAME1 (command):

User name Name1
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country code 000 (System Default)
Account active Yes
Account expires Never

Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
Password expires Never
Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
Password required Yes
User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Administrators
*Debugger Users
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is the info! The account's password was not set to
expire, and everything looks right, except that it does
not appear in Control Panel/User Accounts or the Welcome
Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.

What's the problem? What caused this? And most
importantly HOW DO I FIX IT?

Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost
every month? This is so focking retarded!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are
some features I expect be included in the upcoming Windows
Vista:

1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat
by the user) with the next Windows release, and have the
output logged into the registry.
3. Make ALL files excutable.
4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done
already!
6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very
long hex strings, so as to hide from the user, among
others, the biometric fart logs.

 

[Nepatsfan]

Correction to my earlier response:

Have you checked the Properties of the user account?
Go to Start -> Run and enter lusrmgr.msc in the Open box.
Click OK.
Open the Users folder.
See if the account in question has been disabled.

Sorry for the confusion. Also, you might want to take a look in
Local Security Policy for a setting within the Local
Settings/Password Policies that may be casusing this behavior.

Nepatsfan

None of the links you provided help me in any way. I have
SP2 and all the updates.
The locked out account does not appear in the control panel
or the logon screen.

Format it is then. It will take me a month to reinstall all
programs and plugins.

Thanks anyway.

Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078

You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change
Your Expired Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Windows XP Pro

Name1 has admin privileges.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Event Properties:

Logon Failure:
Reason: Account locked out
User Name: Name1
Domain: Name2
Logon Type: 2

Logon Process: User32
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: Name2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-Name1 Properties:

Name1




Full name:


Description:


User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]

User cannot change password

X Password never expires

Account is disabled
Account is locked out [GHOSTED]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-NET USER NAME1 (command):

User name Name1
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country code 000 (System Default)
Account active Yes
Account expires Never

Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
Password expires Never
Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
Password required Yes
User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Administrators
*Debugger Users
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is the info! The account's password was not set to
expire, and everything looks right, except that it does
not appear in Control Panel/User Accounts or the Welcome
Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.

What's the problem? What caused this? And most
importantly HOW DO I FIX IT?

Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost
every month? This is so focking retarded!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are
some features I expect be included in the upcoming Windows
Vista:

1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat
by the user) with the next Windows release, and have the
output logged into the registry.
3. Make ALL files excutable.
4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done
already!
6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very
long hex strings, so as to hide from the user, among
others, the biometric fart logs.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I never use Control Panel to manage users. The few times I did try it
sometimes it would take 10 seconds or so for all users to show up there. I
use lusrmgr.msc [or right click My Computer/manage - local users and groups]
to mange users and groups and have to use control-alt-delete to logon and
enter the user name since my computers are part of my Active Directory
domain. I can not do user switching since my computer is part of a domain
so I may be missing something here. In case this is the built in
administrator account I would check the security option for
accounts:administrator account status and make sure it is set to enabled and
not disabled or not defined. Use secpol.msc to open Local Security policy
and go to local policies/security options to see and configure security
options. --- Steve

I did access the account properties, and in fact I pasted them in my first
post. The account is not "disabled", and also it is not a password issue
since I'm llogged as the "Administrator", and can change the account
password
with "net user password".

I just want the user to show up in the usual places, so that I can log in
with that user and resume my work with that users settings.

Besides if I lost my password, I have two other instalations of windows,
one
is 64 bit. which protect me from file loss in the event such as this where
I
have to reinstall.

Thanks Steven.

Try booting into safe mode and then try logging on as administrator and
if
you can access the account properties for the locked out account and
uncheck
that the account is locked out. To find which users are local
administrators
run the command net localgroup administrators. If nothing seems to help
you
could try putting the hard drive in another computer or boot from
something
like Bart's PE and copy the sam file from the windows\repair folder to
the
windows\system32\config folder though I suggest you rename the sam file
in
the windows\system32\config folder first. If that works you may have a
different password in the sam file you copied over since it may be the
one
from the original installation of the operating system though there are
tools that can reset the administrator password if you forgot it and I
think
the same tool may have an option to unlock locked accounts though I am
not
positive as I have not used it for a while. See the links below if you
are
interested in trying that. --- Steve

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

None of the links you provided help me in any way. I have SP2 and all
the
updates.
The locked out account does not appear in the control panel or the
logon
screen.

Format it is then. It will take me a month to reinstall all programs
and
plugins.

Thanks anyway.


:

Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078

You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change Your Expired
Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| Windows XP Pro
|
| Name1 has admin privileges.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| - Event Properties:
|
| Logon Failure:
| Reason: Account locked out
| User Name: Name1
| Domain: Name2
| Logon Type: 2
|
| Logon Process: User32
| Authentication Package: Negotiate
| Workstation Name: Name2
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| -Name1 Properties:
|
| Name1
|
|
|
|
| Full name:
|
|
| Description:
|
|
| User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]
|
| User cannot change password
|
| X Password never expires
|
| Account is disabled
| Account is locked out [GHOSTED]
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| -NET USER NAME1 (command):
|
| User name Name1
| Full Name
| Comment
| User's comment
| Country code 000 (System Default)
| Account active Yes
| Account expires Never
|
| Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password expires Never
| Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password required Yes
| User may change password Yes
|
| Workstations allowed All
| Logon script
| User profile
| Home directory
| Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM
|
| Logon hours allowed All
|
| Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Debugger Users
| Global Group memberships *None
| The command completed successfully.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This is the info! The account's password was not set to expire, and
| everything looks right, except that it does not appear in Control
Panel/User
| Accounts or the Welcome Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't
work.
|
| What's the problem? What caused this? And most importantly HOW DO I
FIX IT?
|
| Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost every month?
This
| is so focking retarded!
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are some
features
I
| expect be included in the upcoming Windows Vista:
|
| 1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
| 2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat by the
user)
with
| the next Windows release, and have the output logged into the
registry.
| 3. Make ALL files excutable.
| 4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
| 5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done already!
| 6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very long hex
strings,
| so as to hide from the user, among others, the biometric fart logs.

 

[Guest]

Not oly have i checked the Properties for the account, I have captured the
text and pasted it in my first post.

The account "doesn't seem" to be disabled by looking at user properties...

thanks, nepasfan.

Have you checked the Properties of the user account?
Go to Start -> Run and enter lusrmgmt.msc in the Open box.
Click OK.
Open the Users folder.
See if the account in question has been disabled.

Nepatsfan

None of the links you provided help me in any way. I have
SP2 and all the updates.
The locked out account does not appear in the control panel
or the logon screen.

Format it is then. It will take me a month to reinstall all
programs and plugins.

Thanks anyway.

Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078

You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change
Your Expired Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

Windows XP Pro

Name1 has admin privileges.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Event Properties:

Logon Failure:
Reason: Account locked out
User Name: Name1
Domain: Name2
Logon Type: 2

Logon Process: User32
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: Name2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-Name1 Properties:

Name1




Full name:


Description:


User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]

User cannot change password

X Password never expires

Account is disabled
Account is locked out [GHOSTED]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-NET USER NAME1 (command):

User name Name1
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country code 000 (System Default)
Account active Yes
Account expires Never

Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
Password expires Never
Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
Password required Yes
User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Administrators
*Debugger Users
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is the info! The account's password was not set to
expire, and everything looks right, except that it does
not appear in Control Panel/User Accounts or the Welcome
Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.

What's the problem? What caused this? And most
importantly HOW DO I FIX IT?

Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost
every month? This is so focking retarded!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are
some features I expect be included in the upcoming Windows
Vista:

1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat
by the user) with the next Windows release, and have the
output logged into the registry.
3. Make ALL files excutable.
4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done
already!
6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very
long hex strings, so as to hide from the user, among
others, the biometric fart logs.

 

[Guest]

I did access the account properties, and in fact I pasted them in my first
post. The account is not "disabled", and also it is not a password issue
since I'm llogged as the "Administrator", and can change the account password
with "net user password".

I just want the user to show up in the usual places, so that I can log in
with that user and resume my work with that users settings.

Besides if I lost my password, I have two other instalations of windows, one
is 64 bit. which protect me from file loss in the event such as this where I
have to reinstall.

Thanks Steven.

Try booting into safe mode and then try logging on as administrator and if
you can access the account properties for the locked out account and uncheck
that the account is locked out. To find which users are local administrators
run the command net localgroup administrators. If nothing seems to help you
could try putting the hard drive in another computer or boot from something
like Bart's PE and copy the sam file from the windows\repair folder to the
windows\system32\config folder though I suggest you rename the sam file in
the windows\system32\config folder first. If that works you may have a
different password in the sam file you copied over since it may be the one
from the original installation of the operating system though there are
tools that can reset the administrator password if you forgot it and I think
the same tool may have an option to unlock locked accounts though I am not
positive as I have not used it for a while. See the links below if you are
interested in trying that. --- Steve

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

None of the links you provided help me in any way. I have SP2 and all the
updates.
The locked out account does not appear in the control panel or the logon
screen.

Format it is then. It will take me a month to reinstall all programs and
plugins.

Thanks anyway.

Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078

You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change Your Expired
Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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:

| Windows XP Pro
|
| Name1 has admin privileges.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| - Event Properties:
|
| Logon Failure:
| Reason: Account locked out
| User Name: Name1
| Domain: Name2
| Logon Type: 2
|
| Logon Process: User32
| Authentication Package: Negotiate
| Workstation Name: Name2
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| -Name1 Properties:
|
| Name1
|
|
|
|
| Full name:
|
|
| Description:
|
|
| User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]
|
| User cannot change password
|
| X Password never expires
|
| Account is disabled
| Account is locked out [GHOSTED]
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| -NET USER NAME1 (command):
|
| User name Name1
| Full Name
| Comment
| User's comment
| Country code 000 (System Default)
| Account active Yes
| Account expires Never
|
| Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password expires Never
| Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
| Password required Yes
| User may change password Yes
|
| Workstations allowed All
| Logon script
| User profile
| Home directory
| Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM
|
| Logon hours allowed All
|
| Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Debugger Users
| Global Group memberships *None
| The command completed successfully.
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This is the info! The account's password was not set to expire, and
| everything looks right, except that it does not appear in Control
Panel/User
| Accounts or the Welcome Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.
|
| What's the problem? What caused this? And most importantly HOW DO I
FIX IT?
|
| Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost every month?
This
| is so focking retarded!
|
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are some features
I
| expect be included in the upcoming Windows Vista:
|
| 1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
| 2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat by the user)
with
| the next Windows release, and have the output logged into the registry.
| 3. Make ALL files excutable.
| 4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
| 5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done already!
| 6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very long hex
strings,
| so as to hide from the user, among others, the biometric fart logs.