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Password Recovery-Can someone try these utilities to see if they work. I tried one.

Asked by pacumming in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: xp, file, windows, password

I lost my job for the 3rd time-lay off in IT Management. I am thinking of doing a little consulting and had 1 gig where someone lost their password.

I went home and tried the below link/utility on my Win2k machine and afterwords could not even log in. I typed in a password change of lets say jodie2 . After rebooting my Win 2k Pro standalone PC did not recognize the password under my usual Administrator account so I logged on under a spare admin privilefed name and had to change it manually.

Therefore the utility (unless I did something wrong) did not work in resetting the password.

Would love someone to try one of these utils and see if they do work.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ (See Download section on page-the FAQ indicates it should work on Win2K PRO w/o AD and XP)

As for this http://www.jsiinc.com/subk/tip5200/rh5283.htm (I never found an entry "password" a indicated in the write-up. Tried on an XP machine.

have not tried this yet:
http://www.insidepro.com/eng/passwordspro.shtml

http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm#order (Too expensive to even try)

Am open to other ideas as an FYI if I run across anyone that cannot get into their machine. I once ran a recovery/repai utility ona PC on a network and it changed the password and said it was in the setupact.log but I could never get to the file since I could not log on. Duh... I did not have Barts PE Boot disk at the time.

Looking at the SAM file myself or setupact.log as some people say offered no clues. Some of the people I will service will have Win XP

Thanks in advance.
Peter

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Password Recovery-Can someone try these utilities to see if they work. I tried one.

Asked by pacumming in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: xp, file, windows, password

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