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Which service is locking me out of AD.

When one of my users reboots her PC, it locks my AD account. It took me a while to track down which PC was causing this. Now I have a clone of her PC for experimentation. I changed the name so no conflict on the network and sure enough it locks my account as well when it boots before anyone logs on. I am certain that somewhere in the system it has my old password cached and is trying to use it to connect to a network resource of some type. I tried using "alockout.dll" to discover which service is doing this disservice to me. Because I am using Windows 7, "alockout.dll" will not work. I am hoping there is another way to find out which service is causing this problem. I am surprised that Microsoft has not created a version of this dll that will work with Windows 7. Any ideas on how I can find out which service is doing this?

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froto58

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Thank you for your suggestions, they were helpful in solving the puzzle. After working on this problem for more than a week. I finally found an answer on a Microsoft site. The Windows 7 computer had a hidden old password from my domain account. There are passwords that can be stored in the SYSTEM context that can't be seen in the normal Credential Manager view. I had to download and run "PsExec.exe".

http://social.technet.microsoft.com

This program opened the hidden cred. and I had the option of changing the password or deleting the cred all together. Thanks again!