On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:43:04PM -0800, jdow wrote: > Log in as Administrator (not the visible username.) Then change > the user's password back to something useful. > > (ctl-alt-delete twice on the login page gives you the menu that > has Administrator on it. It would take a fairly canny person to > realize that there is an Administrator account to be changed. This > works on XP, at least. I suspect it works on newer versions, too.)
Well, it works on XP Pro; never on XP Home. Reboot to Safe Mode, it'll probably work on all XP; you can't count the number of installations I've found that never set the Administrator password. But it doesn't matter; get P. Nordahl's Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/, or the Trinity Rescue Kit (http://trinityhome.org). You can crack any Windows password. (I haven't tried these on Windows 7 yet.) It's only marginally harder on a Linux system; just boot with the distro disk. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat [email protected] -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
