administrators password

Which Services get affected by admin password change?
I forgot my administrators password, which I need to install a game in my daughters user account. How do I recuperate my paswword or how do I create a new one in windows xp home edition ( please give me the details- I am not very good at this). Thank you, Philip.

ADMINISTRATORS PASSWORD
Wayne Maples wmap...@swbell.net microsoft public windowsnt setup see http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips262.shtml Recover Lost Windows NT Administrator Password -Wayne Contentmaster NT/W2K Tips for Admins and Users http://is-it-true.org/nt On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:38:18 -0500, "Mark Erlandson"

lost admin password
Here is the deal: I have an underlying VIRUS somewhere on my hard drive. So, I am trying to use the repair/recovery application on my OS Boot CD. But, it asks for an Administrators Password. What is this? Where is it? and How can I get around this? -- Thank you to everyone who helped me out BIG TIME here!

workstation administrator password
Don't enter a password and see if it works. good luck, David "Chris" <chrisvau@hotmail. com> wrote in message news:007401c17d22$7fd37890$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11... Try as I might I cannot log into the console while booting as I do not have the correct administrators password. I am trying to use the windows admin/main

Recovering Administrators Password
But, I am now stuck at the part that requires an administrator password. I was under the impression that I was, in fact the administrator of the computer, so I used the password that I am positive I would have used if I had set it up. I was told that the password was invalid and to try again.

administrator login
What I need to do is this: I need to make all users part of the administrators group, but at the same time I need to remove the dialog box that allows anyone in administrators group to change the administrators password.I think it is poor planning on MS part, when you go to control panel>users and attempt to change

Active Directory Problems
Jtyc y...@respondtothegroup.com microsoft public certification I have just enrolled in mcsa and in installing the w2k professional I (by accident) did not use any password to set up my admin password. All I did was to punch the enter ket and my "password" was accepted. I brought it to my teacher and he really let me

change administrators password?
Bruce Chambers bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t microsoft public windowsxp basics Arthur wrote: Is the administrator's password that you need in order to gain access to the Recovery Console the same as the current password that belongs to a person who is an administrator on the computer. The question sounds silly,

Bug#467392: [INTL:es] Spanish podebconf template translation
Hello My Company has laid off the person in charge of the password list and he is not being very helpful. I was wondering is there a way to change the administrator password or override it? I have tried all known variations and other than reinstalling Win2K I would like to know if there is an easier way of handling

pwdump2 on isolated SAM with syskey enabled
Neil Moore-Smith n...@moore-smith.co.uk comp os ms-windows nt admin security Steve Uncrackable is impossible, as in theory you can brute-force it with every combination of letters/characters. It just takes a long time. My solution is to change the domain Administrator password regularly.

Do I need to put in an Administrators password?
Manually renaming the SAM files at C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SAM and C:\WINNT\REPAIR\SAM should also reset the local Administrator password to blank [and would also probably delete all other local accounts which you had created on your computer]. This can be done by booting from a DOS or Windows 9x boot floppy

Keeping Administrators from changing admin password
Mil...@co.chelan.wa.us> wrote: We have several Win2k/Win2003 servers + the Exchange2003 server that are all on one domain, the problem is the username and password for admin has gotten out and we have needed to change it for along time. Is there something special that I need to know when I change the admin password

lost admin password
I recently changed the domain administrators password but the BDCs still use the old password despite several synchronisations. Is there any way to force the BDCs to use the new password? Gary You could try tip 0199 in the 'NT Reg Hacks' at http://www.jsiinc.com Jerold Schulman / MVP JSI,

lost admin password
We are trying to install new software that asks for the administrators password. Unfortunately the Mac guy never told anyone what it was. Instead we have a nasty little Catch-22 thing going on. We have tried going in and changing the password through system preferences and it asks for the original password before

Admin Password first relpy I got
I run a small network and following a spell in hospital have returned to find that I have forgotten the administrators password and so cannot open up the server in order to administer the network. Most of the "easy ways" to enter WinNT4 apply to W2k as well, so here's my standard-file: The following if a

Admin name & password change
Change password for any network map that is using administrator account. I hope this helps, Mike "Darren" <Dar...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EB706F97-D4CB-4AE8-B933-CF9E4425E733@microsoft.com... Are there any major issues with changing the administrators password in Server 2003 running

Windows Repair Problem
I don't expect that they'll go changing passwords, but, to be on the safe side, I have a startup script configured with this in it: net user administrator mypassword Each time the computer reboots, the administrator account password is reset. -- -- Brian Desmond Windows Server MVP desmo...@payton.cps.k12.il.us

Can't logon as domain administrator after password change
MyLastN...@pseg.com microsoft public exchange admin Kirill S. Palagin <kpala...@nomail.yahoo.nomail.com> wrote in message This will not change password in Directory. No, but it will allow you to get the services started. At that point, you can open Exchange Admin and change the password the correct way.

SBS2K Admin Password
It has something to do with the Service Request Monitor because after changing the admin. password back to the original, I stopped receiving error Hello, after changing the administrators password for the domain and restarting the server I started receiving Event ID: 46 (DMI access failed(515)) and Event ID: 33

Reset administrators password
I cannot remember the administrators password. The only user that I'm able to logon to is severly limited in is permissions. Is there any way I can get around this or create another admin? It has no hint or forgotten password disk. Thanks, Miles.