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Winnt Startup Password
Name: Vanish Pattni Date: April 16, 2000 at 16:40:11 Pacific
Comment:
One of our NT machines has a NT startup password on it - i.e. not a power-on password. Would anyone know how one could get around it so that I can have the NT booting up.
Name: Pete Date: April 17, 2000 at 00:10:59 Pacific
Reply:
What on earth is a NT startup password?? Never heard that one before. If it isn't a BIOS Power on Password, the only other one that NT uses is the regular NT logon, is that what you mean? Ctrl,alt, del.
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Response Number 2
Name: andrewb Date: April 17, 2000 at 11:35:42 Pacific
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I suspect someone enabled SysKey on your system and your system is prompting you for the key. I use a system generated key on the systems I run it on, however you also have the option to store it on a floppy or type it in! If syskey is enabled and you don't know the password, you're looking at a os reinstall!
FYI - syskey encrypts the password portion of the Registry/SAM. It thwarts programs such as lopht from hacking passwords.
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