What's the best program to reset admin local password?

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What's the best program to reset admin local password? For Windows 2003 especially.
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cbmm

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Do you have admin rights to the pc?
BillBondo

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Is it a DC? If so no local admin. Did you forget it?
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SAM2009

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Ya you are right. It's a DC.

When I start in safe mode it ask a login. So what can I do in this case?
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If you can boot the server in normal mode, the password can be changed very easily. See here: Reset Local Admin password

If not you can use trinity to reset the password
SAM2009

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Wow net user works just fine and easy. I get in to the server by remote with psexec and type net user cmd... Thank you very much for your helps!
cbmm

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Yes, psexec is a very nice tool. The sysinternals suite is very useful.

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