Re: password recovery


"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"RobR" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm trying to find the easiest way to walk someone who's not
super technical through restoring their XP password. Here's the
issue. My dad called last night, said he ran Microsoft's Antispyware
which removed a bunch of things on his laptop. He then rebooted
and was faced with a login screen, with a domain box (he's running
XP Home, I didn't think you could even join a domain with Home
without some hacking anyway).

I then walked him through both the creating a CD and boot floppy
method detailed here:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

The CD didn't boot and the floppy started to load a Linux kernel
then almost immediately errored out. I had him create it on
another floppy just in case the first one was bad.

Is there anything we can do with the recovery console or
is there another fairly straightforward tool I can walk him
through?



The Nordahl boot disk is supposed to start a Linux kernel.
Since it is about the exact opposite of "simple", your only
chance is to do the same thing on your own machine and
tell him what keys to press.

After resetting the administrator's password to a blank
(which is NOT the same as "recovering"), get him to create
a second admin account and to lock its details away.
He doesn't have just a single set of keys for his car, does
he? Same principle here!



I'm trying this route instead
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/features/article_1090072.php

Never heard of this one before, but it looks fairly simple.


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