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Forgotten Account Password
If you are logging in to a domain, and have the domain administrator/equivalent account, login as that and then reset the local administrator account password. 2. If you are not logging in to a domain, or don't have access to the domain administrator/equivalent, you can delete the WINNT\SYSTEM32\SAM file.

Procédure d'exploitation / maintenance / URGENT
The reason for some users having local admin rights is that some of them are developers, others evaluate software and others are tech support dealing with problems. Apart from tech support, none of them have the slightest need to know the local Administrator account password. I'm sure we could find better solutions

XP reinstall help needed
Double checked it. a) I changed the account password for the account called ADMIN (not named Administrator) on my local PC. b) I can still see shares on the The one way it may be possible is for local account 'Administrator' if you have set the password to the same as your domain administrator, in which case it

Can't change minimum password length policy
Take a look at KB272530 "How to Use the Cusrmgr.exe Tool to Change Administrator Account Password" You can use the Cusrmgr.exe tool that is included with the "AS IS" with no warranties, -----Original Message----- Hello, There's got to be an easier way to change the local administrator password on all systems.

Change Local Administrator account password on all client ...
Tony Muma tonym...@yahoo.com microsoft public windows server scripting -----Original Message----- Is there a away I can change the local administrator account password on all PCs?? I would really hate to have to do this manually? Any ideas or suggestions? . I found a tool that seems to work.

I forget my account password!
To download visit http://www.matcode.com/remdrv.htm "TJ Mughal" <ta...@akunet.org> wrote in message news:<OIoz8NlnBHA.1780@tkmsftngp05>... Dear All I have lost my local administrator password and if there is any way to get-out of it, please answer. I want to preserve all of settings that I previously had. Thnaks.

Remove NT Server
It's only the administrator account that is not logging in. Thanks, Suraj. -----Original Message----- Are you logging into the 9x machine w/ a username and password that matches exactly (including case) a user that the server will recognize? IOW, it must be a user that is either local to the machine or exists in a

Administrator Password
Stew stewartb...@nowhere.com microsoft public win2000 group_policy Samer, I have a scripted solution that requires a database (Access or SQL either will work)... When the script is run as a system "Startup Script" any local account password can be changed including Administrator, Guest, or any other local account.

EFS file recovery on Win2k
It's harder to reliably change local accounts remotely, so those passwords tend to not change as frequently. That also keeps the password hash off of the local computer... any But since both have administrator rights we worry that students will reset the password on the first account, which is our main concern.

Change local administrator password on all w2k nodes
TJ Mughal ta...@akunet.org microsoft public win2000 security Dear All I have lost my local administrator password and if there is any way to get-out of it, please answer. I want to preserve all of settings that I previously had. Thnaks.

domain administrator account password reset problem
Apparently, all NT machines change their password for the secure channel every 7 days (the old password is supposed to be remembered by the DCs and the workstation, as well.) The DCs now contained the machine account passwords from a week previous. In some instances, I knew the local Administrator password and was

Local administrator password
In the past, it was the default account/password combination when SQL Server was installed and if your SQL Server is running under a local administrator account, you just gave anybody who has a SQL Server client tool complete control over that computer. There was a worm that hit a while back that simply scanned

Windows 2000 and The Watchers
Pegasus I....@fly.com microsoft public win2000 general Create an other account and use it for your tasks. "Pierre Bru" <Pierre....@spotimage.fr> wrote in message news:3DE4F919.2050409@spotimage.fr... the task runs under the local administrator account which is OK. the password must be OK as the task often runs...

Script: Enumerte Local Admin, Rename, & Change Password
Clay Sellers clay_sell...@yahoo.com microsoft public win2000 general Well, if you are talking about your local user profile password that you forgot, you can log in as the local administrator (if you remember that password) and change your user account password. You rt. click on My Computer>Manager.

Password
Is there a way to give someone local administrator rights on their computer without giving them rights to change the "administrator" account password. I want the user to have the rights to they can install their own software locally but I don't want them to be able to change the administrator account password.

Local administrator account password
... charset=US-ASCII HI there, is it possible to join a samba 2.2.8 domain with a win2000/xp client without using the local administrator account of windows and -to join the domain as a user with rights to change the machine's trust account password. This means either you must use the root account (and the root

DCOM Woes
Our system administrator has left and unfortunately i could not get the administrator account password of the pc which has windows xp on which i am currently you might try to reset the local Administrator password with one of the methods mentioned here: http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password

Changing Admin. password stops exchange!
Dan, Not sure that a "Universal" password would work in the sense that you mean. ASAIK, there can be only one password per user account. I am guessing that you need to do things that require local Administrator privileges? If that is the case, the Run As possibility might work for you.

Laptop networking issue
The guy who set up the network here left without documenting the password for the local administrator account. I have the domain administrator account password. Is there anything I can do to work around the problem short of reformatting the hard drive? We are running Small Business Server and Windows NT 4.0 for

Question about an account called "Admin" xp pro. Newbie question.
We're planning to use the Group Policy Object at the domain level to Rename the Local Administrator account. (Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings, Local Policies, Security Options, Rename administrator password) Is there a GPO setting that allows us to control the local administrator