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Password recovery software
Hello Experts,
I lost my old CD that I had when I needed to change the password of the SAM accounts in windows systems.
When I go to a new location lots of times some systems do not have the administrator password account.
I need to find free password recovery software and create a bootable USB drive.
Any recommendations please?
I lost my old CD that I had when I needed to change the password of the SAM accounts in windows systems.
When I go to a new location lots of times some systems do not have the administrator password account.
I need to find free password recovery software and create a bootable USB drive.
Any recommendations please?
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Just use any Windows 7 or later CD. Boot up, rename Utilman on the hard drive and put a copy of cmd.exe in place. Then you can reset the admin account password.
Simply googling the "Utilman trick" will give you a bunch of tutorials - or check out Scorpion Software's Crack the Cred series, episode 105 (works for non DCs too).
Simply googling the "Utilman trick" will give you a bunch of tutorials - or check out Scorpion Software's Crack the Cred series, episode 105 (works for non DCs too).
Thanks Lee, I just found this on the web. This will come in handy.
http://sysadminstricks.com/tricks/windows-tricks/how-to-reset-administrator-password-on-windows-with-installation-media.html
http://sysadminstricks.com/tricks/windows-tricks/how-to-reset-administrator-password-on-windows-with-installation-media.html
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