Re: What's the Password?

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"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Did you try it with the net user command? Other than using brute force
password cracking utilities there is no way of retrieving the password.
Depending on the length and complexity of the password it could literally
take years to crack a password with a desktop computer! It would take
Big Blue to crack a complex password! There are password reset
utilities, these reset utilities do not need to know the old password,
they just give the account a new password. If you really cannot change
the password then create a new account, in any case it is a bad idea to
run with the built-in Administrator account, you really should run under
a different account. If you really want to, or need to reset the
password you can use this: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/



An excelent utility, but only use it clear the password with XP. If you
use it to create a new password, you will find that XP won't let you in.
Clear the pasword and then set a new one in XP itself.

Yes, and if you have encrypted files and use the utility you can kiss the
files good-bye! If the encrypted files were life or death important you
can kiss your "derrière" good bye!


Correctamundo.


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