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Posted 8/17/2003 8:00 AM
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I am using a Win2K machine and recently I've changed the logon password and couldn't recover it (probably there was a typo error). Is there anyway I can bypass the logon or I've heard about booting up with a Linux/Unix boot disk to change the windows encrypted password. Please help... thanks!

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http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/


It only works on the local account database, not on an Active Directory database.



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Ok... thanks! However, if you're logged in as the administrator, is it possible to delete your own account? And the next time you restart, you cannot log in anymore?

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Not possible to delete in the administrator account at all.  But someone logged on as the administrator can delete any other user account they want.

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