I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this.
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Tim Evans [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Latitude access problem reset the administrator password? From: Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Latitude access problem That gets me in to the box but I don't seem to be able to change the password to his account. It says that it can't do it. At least we can easily get to his data. Thanks for the help. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland [email protected] On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Tim Evans <[email protected]> wrote: Have him boot off of http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/ and reset the password. No reinstall needed From: Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Latitude access problem Dell Latitude Genuises: Just had a call from a customer. He decided to set an account password on his Latitude laptop three days ago. He did this after drinking a bottle of wine, and now he can't remember his password. He either typed it wrong twice when setting it or doesn't remember it. Either way he can't get into his machine. He also doesn't remember or can't figure out what the Admin password is either. He does own the box and apparently he recently talked with Dell about this specific Service Tag to get drivers for a refresh. This is the box he has been using for some class he is taking so he needs to get the data off of it. It runs fine, he just can't get into it. He can pull the HDD and put it in an external case and attach it to another machine to grab the data before he wipes and reinstalls the OS. I have never tried to "repair" an operating system installation to reset passwords and I really think that will not work. Anyway, he is going to try a repair before he pulls the drive and recovers his data and then rebuilds. I believe that there are no viruses involved, but it did sound like alcohol was involved <grin>. Anyone have any thoughts, I can try or pass on to him? Len Hammond CSI:Hartland [email protected] _____ If this email is spam, report it here: <http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpam&Id=ODEzNjQ6MTAxNDAyNzA2N jpwanBAcHNuZXQuY29t> http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
