I just got done using this one. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ It makes a bootable CD and then you can get into registry and change the password or zero them out for now. And it is free. It worked for me on a Vista machine.
Anthony -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of prs Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista Steve Tomporowski wrote: > Short version: My last child in the house, my last son, has a Vista > install that my wife 'wisely' decided to place an admin password on and > then promptly forgot it. Now the only account that we know the password > to, my son's, is locked down and we can't install anything. Is there > any way, other than a reinstall, to recover or change the admin password? > > Thanks....Steve > > Nirsoft makes a password recovery tool..this comes from CPU Mag "Computer Power Users"...never used it myself, but you can check it out . Its "free" www.nirsoft.net Password Recovery Tools For Windows pauls
