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?

Be sneaky:

Install your third-party program, say, "PassWordSafe" (which I recommed), on
another computer.

From your limited account on the hurt computer, copy PassWordSafe's data
file to the other computer.

Use the other computer to discover the password of the crippled computer.


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