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Article #54Re: I need help w/my password
From: Travis Ashby
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 Nicole-97@rocketmail.com wrote:
> Help! I have forgotten my admin password. I need to know if there's
> a reg setting or file I can open. I know it's in the pwl file, but
> can anyone tell me how to open it? Thanks!
>
> Nicole-97@rocketmail.com
>
>
Nicole:
The most straight forward way to go about this is to do an
emergency repair using an emergency repair disk, like others advised, if you
made one. The
one thing to remember is that Windows NT setup will replace most of your
operating system files when it does this. If you applied a service pack
to your system you need to remember to reapply it after doing the
emergency repair since the service packs replace most of your system
files with updated files. Your data should not be affected by the
emergency repair. Also, I noticed that many of the respondents were
skeptical about your status as administrator. There is no way to access
an NT machine from a debug terminal if the user running the debugger from
a remote machine isn't given the debug user right, and ordinary users are
not given this right by default. It is probably true that you set up NT
on a personal machine (like I did) and you just forgot your password after
installing it. Best of luck.
-Travis
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