Re: Unable to reset Administrator Password

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From: James B (nospam_at_here.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:31:12 GMT

Nope that doesn't work either but at least I get a real error however that
error is useless too. In safe mode if I try to access the Administrator
account from Local Users in Computer Manangement I get "The workstation
service is not started" and in safe mode you cannot start the workstation
service. This does however maybe point in a direction as only the
administrator account is having this problem and now it's tied to the
Workstation service in some way, strange.

"Bert Kinney" <bert@NSmvps.org> wrote in message
news:O778E9UBFHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi James,
>
> Log onto the hidden Administrator account through Safe Mode and reset
> the password for any account from there.
>
> Password Lost: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
> http://dts-l.org/
>
> James B wrote:
> > I am unable to reset the administrator password and get
> > an "internal error" when I try to do so. I have used both
> > Computer Management and Wininternals command line
> > password reset tool and both say "internal error" when
> > you attempt to reset the admin password. Of course being
> > smart I don't use the admin account and have two other
> > accounts with full admin rights but it would be nice to
> > know what my administrator password is and be able to
> > reset it since I do have some apps running as a service
> > using that account.
>
>

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