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Windows 7 Admin Password Reset Tools Not Working
Hello,
I was setting up a new Windows 7 machine for my sister and someone in the house threw away the piece of paper I had the administrator password on that I wanted to give her. I have tried a couple of different tools that I normally use such as the Offline NT password & registry editor boot disk but for whatever reason after running the utility and getting the "password reset successfully" message I reboot and..... nothing. The password isn't reset and I'm back to the drawing board. I also tried to promote the standard user account to an admin account and that didnt work either. What are my options now? Is there some way to use the built in admin account to just delete the other admin account and then create a new one? Please help.......
I was setting up a new Windows 7 machine for my sister and someone in the house threw away the piece of paper I had the administrator password on that I wanted to give her. I have tried a couple of different tools that I normally use such as the Offline NT password & registry editor boot disk but for whatever reason after running the utility and getting the "password reset successfully" message I reboot and..... nothing. The password isn't reset and I'm back to the drawing board. I also tried to promote the standard user account to an admin account and that didnt work either. What are my options now? Is there some way to use the built in admin account to just delete the other admin account and then create a new one? Please help.......
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I tried [Admin Edit -VM] and I also tried a couple of other tools. None of them worked. I am downloading PC Login Now. I'll let you know how it goes.
Hawk PE works. ive used it for windows 7 before
Hi,
Download this file:
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/cd080802.zip
Extract it and you'll end up with an ISO file.
Burn this to a CD and pop it in your Drive.
Reboot the machine and boot to CD
Follow the onscreen instructions
If you need a step by step guide then follow this article:
http://www.techrena.net/computers/reset-windows-xp-vista-7-password-usb-pen-drive-cd/
Download this file:
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/cd080802.zip
Extract it and you'll end up with an ISO file.
Burn this to a CD and pop it in your Drive.
Reboot the machine and boot to CD
Follow the onscreen instructions
If you need a step by step guide then follow this article:
http://www.techrena.net/computers/reset-windows-xp-vista-7-password-usb-pen-drive-cd/
With Offline NT password & registry editor boot disk , try making the password blank instead of just resetting it...
If you have access to a domain, just add it to thea domain, change the password on the local admin and remove it from the domain.
If you have access to a domain, just add it to thea domain, change the password on the local admin and remove it from the domain.
There are boot CD's being posted here that contravene E-E rules. ... Thinkpads_User
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Sweet. I tired NTPass a couple of times but I didn't try the "correct shutdown procedures twice". I'll give that a try tomorrow. I also tried Ophcrack and it didn't work.....
Nice ;) get back to me when you tried it! The ophcrack is depending on hashes, the easiest pwds could be retrieved with the free hashes. For tougher lines you may need to get the big hashes for vista ( also works on windows 7) they're about 8gb each and .iso. Good luck!
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Worked like a charm:)
If you cannot install software on your sister's computer, your options are limited. You can google for some password recovery tools.
If you can install Cain (oxid.it) you can try it, but for Windows 7, you need the 3Gb set of rainbow tables and they take about a week to build on one computer. You can purchase them as well. This assumes the password you threw away has no special characters.
... Thinkpads_User