[Help] Changing Admin account password from another account

[the_anomaly]

Hi,

I think i have forgotten the password for my Admin account.

Is there a way i can reset the password or change it without having to format the disk from a guest account or some other account.

I know abt the "control userpasswords2 " command but am not sure whether it'll work for me in this case.

Pls help

[rahulpatel]

U use ERD Commander... Thats it.

[the_anomaly]

thx for the quick response but wot is this ERD commander ??

pls do shed some light on it.

[Sonic]

if you rare an admin account, in the command line windows ("cmd") you can type

net user "TheNameOfTheAdministrator" ""

this will blank the user password ... but an error come on if you can't blank ...

ERD COmmander is a live CD of windows (an emergency rescue cd) which it allow to change password of any user you want without any know a password ... but the price is high ... there is a free floppy to reset password too ...

[Takeshi]

Why won't control userpasswords2 work for you? It's the normal method. Perhaps there isn't any other admin account to logon.

If you have XP Pro, you can also use Local Users and Groups.

Both require that you have administrative privilege. If you're not admin then none of these will work.

If you have XP HE, the root Administrator account is available in Safe Mode.

ERD Commander actually works on Windows PE priniciple and loads the SAM off line. I'm in the process of trying doing it with MS Windows PE itself and have success blanking the Administrator password.