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Old 15 March 2003, 06:07 PM
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My 6 year old daughter has passcode protected the admin login for XP and I don't know how to get around it?!!!!! HELP. Bloody kids!!!

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Old 15 March 2003, 06:17 PM
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Phill,

Have a look at this page here

I have used it on more than one occasion to reset the admin passwords on machines etc...

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Old 16 March 2003, 11:16 AM
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Had a quick look at the site and it's double dutch!!! IS there anyone that would like to summarise it for me. Do I need to make a boot disk or what ??

Confused!!

Cheers Phill
Old 16 March 2003, 01:14 PM
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Phill,

No wonder you guys cant get anything working

Basically you make a boot disk, which loads Linux, Follow onscreen prompts, e.g. User Account to Change Password on, New Password.

Job done!

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Old 16 March 2003, 08:54 PM
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Ian,

Steady, no need for that, doesn't our Broadband work just fine ??

Well what can I say, I played with that site, decompressed the boot disk and took a look. Thought that'll never boot, but IT DID!!! First try, I changed the system password. Second try, it worked!!! I can now login to windows again. All this trouble cause of a 6 year old. Fantastic tool mate

Cheers Phill C

Old 16 March 2003, 09:25 PM
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No worries Phill!

Glad it got you sorted, and incidently my broadband has been flawless apart from one hitch, but that was down to a stupid twit of an engineer
Old 16 March 2003, 09:44 PM
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Wish I had known about this 2 months ago. We lost one of our machines as a disgruntled person had changed it, we ended up going with Winterals $600 software that does essentially the same job
Old 16 March 2003, 09:49 PM
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That was actually how I found this tool initially must have been about 18 months ago or so now.

I was onsite at a clients and nobody knew the domain admin password, and I had not been informed of any changes too it. A bit of time surfing the web and i found this. Has come in handy on more than one occasion for me!

I keep a copy of the bootdisk, as well as all the RAID controller addons in my laptop case now.
Old 16 March 2003, 10:18 PM
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Well building the boot disk was a little drama for a bloke that normally does windows and nothing else

I uploaded the files to my PWP, so I can get them remotely just in case.

Appreciate that mate......Thanks
Old 16 March 2003, 10:29 PM
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I know that feeling all too well!

Anyway I am soon to be an EX IT type personage.
Old 16 March 2003, 11:38 PM
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Why whatcha doin Ian, has the IT "glut" got to you like the rest of us ?
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