Re: User -> administrator ?

try one of these to reset the admin PW
Instructions
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
image files
http://ntpass.blaa.net/bd011022.zip (1.4MB - Bootdisk image, date 011022)
http://ntpass.blaa.net/sc011022.zip (~700KB) - SCSI-drivers (011022)
This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid
(local) account on your NT system, by modifying the crypted password in the
registrys SAM file.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
image writer
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/rawrite2.zip

Another one
Change administrator password on NT/2000, without knowing it!!! Bootdisk...
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html
image file
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/filez/sw/external/linuxbootimage.zip
image writer
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/filez/sw/external/imagewriter.zip

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"Gaëtan" <gaetan91@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Gordon a écrit :
>> Gaëtan wrote:
>>> HI. I have this friend who got a pc from a friend with nothing else on
>>> it than Win XP pro ( no sp1, or sp2 ! )no other programs.
>>> His friend account was the administrator one but forgot to give him
>>> his old password. After few tentatives with passwords my friend gave
>>> him, XP finally asked him to change his password. So he created his
>>> own. He finally got into the OS. So he decided to create a new
>>> account in his own name and password. He did so and it worked fine.
>>> But he deleted his friends administrator account at the same time. So
>>> now he's only a normal user and his pc doesn't have any administrator
>>> account! He can't add, delete or do anything in the pc, not even get
>>> to regedit, or to the " modify your account " window since he's not
>>> an administrator !!! Is there an easy way to transfer is " user
>>> account " into an " administrator account ". I think he doesn't have
>>> the Win XP CD !!! Thanks for your help.
>>> Gaëtan.
>>
>> You can't delete the built-in administrator account. At the Welcome
>> Screen, press Ctl-Alt-Del twice. This should bring up a log-in box. Use
>> "administrator" for the user name (without the quotes). It is possible
>> that if XP was pre-installed that the password for The Administrator is
>> blank.
>>
>> HTH
> Nope ! there was a password already set. But the friend didn't remembered
> it. So he got a new one in. And it works.. but as a "user", not an "
> administrator ". Thanks for your help.
> Gaetan.


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