Re: Locked Out of Administrator Account

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TastyWheat wrote:

Due to a lack of reading documentation and a lot of bad luck I'm
locked
out of my only administrator account. The account I'm using now is a
limited user; probably not even a power user. I used a 3rd party
program to restrict access to my computer during certain times of the
day (otherwise I won't get any sleep). However, I set up the program
incorrectly and now my computer is locked up as soon as I login. I
don't know the password, but I typed it into a password managing
program I have. However, I can't load the program from any other
account than the administrator. I tried using the "Run as..." option
but I don't have the Secondary Logon service running. I've tried a
few boot disks but none of them give me write permission to the hard
drive
(NTFS4DOS didn't work). Also, I tried my trusty old Knoppix cd, and
of
all things, I couldn't su to root! Even if it worked I'm not sure
Knoppix can write to an NTFS drive. If it did though I would take my
chances. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions?

Contact tech support of the third-party program you used.

Malke
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