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Original Message

Name: riccardo
Date: January 29, 2003 at 00:59:17 Pacific
Subject: forgot local administrator password
OS: win2k professional
CPU/Ram: p4

Comment:

How can I recovery my local administrator password to get in win2k professional?
Thanks

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Response Number 1

Name: nafiseh
Date: January 29, 2003 at 01:18:37 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Boot system whit floppy or with OS dos.
then go d:\winnt\system32
and delete sam file .
Now administrator hasnot password.

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Response Number 2

Name: Soul Reaver
Date: January 29, 2003 at 02:25:20 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Thank you VERY VERY VERY much!
This WAS a big problem 4 me...
:-)

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Response Number 3

Name: Messiah
Date: January 29, 2003 at 03:28:49 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

glad to hear that solved your problem, you might want to take a look at this program for futher reference, maybe:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

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Response Number 4

Name: riccardo
Date: January 29, 2003 at 03:49:36 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Is there a way to recover the old password, without erase it?
thanks

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Response Number 5

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: January 29, 2003 at 05:37:50 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Yep. Write it down and store in a secure place.

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Response Number 6

Name: riccardo
Date: January 29, 2003 at 07:19:37 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

...I mean, recover the old password (without erase it) when you have forgot...
Do you know the way?

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Response Number 7

Name: timm
Date: January 29, 2003 at 08:57:15 Pacific

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How do I find that SAM file? I have samlib.dll and samsrv.dll. Are these the ones?

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Response Number 8

Name: Deputy DooDah
Date: January 29, 2003 at 16:16:29 Pacific

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If you're the administrator, why would you care what the old password was as long as you have a new one that works.
Sounds like you're trying to get into someone else's system without being detected.

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Response Number 9

Name: riccerdo
Date: January 30, 2003 at 01:52:16 Pacific

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...I have 100 computers to reset! Schould be better to recovery the old one, instead of change the password in 100 PC...

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Response Number 10

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: January 30, 2003 at 07:45:02 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

SMS can do that for you.

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