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Re: WinXP Admin login
From: Vishal <dhrakol () myrealbox com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:47:54 -0500
Hi Gary Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 2:07:03 PM, you wrote: SG> Other than use the WinXP installation disc, is there another way to SG> re-capture Admin privileges on a machine that was previously given a SG> password for the Admin account? If you have physical access to the system, you may want to give Petter Nordahl's NT bootdisk utility a whirl. I have used it successfully on NT, and have seen it work on Win2K/XP as well. A word of caution though - if you have EFS encrypted files on the target system, they will be unreadable once you reset the password. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Cheers, -Vishal --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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