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MS Virtual PC Win2K Server Password Recovery/Lost

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by uplinkspider

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Ha! Now is my turn and I'm not laughing. Nine months ago I created a MS Virtual PC Win2K Server, today I decided to use it for training but wasn't able to log in despite using every password I have ever used. Is there a way of retrieving this password?

Any suggestions?

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by thumbsup2

You've been around her long enough to know better than to even ask. We will NOT post any help in this matter because the information can be misused. You'll have to search the internet on your own, or call Microsoft.

by uplinkspider

You do know that it's no big secret, right? My question, perhaps poorly phrased, didn't pertain specifically to defeating a password challenge but to MS Virtual PC. Just recently my team and I serviced 34 municipal departments with an approximate of 42,000 end users, collectively. Do you think that my colleges and I never encountered a situation where a password (local Administrator) had been forgotten or changed without our knowledge? Uh huh... There are multitudes of very well known tools available on the Internet, and elsewhere, some for a price and many for free, equally if not more powerful than many high priced digital tools. Oh man, it's no big secret you know; right?

by cmiller5400

[i]Is there a way of retrieving this password? [/i]
That is asking to recover a lost password. If you really are an IT professional, and you know about all the tools, why are you asking?

by uplinkspider

Of course there is/are way(s) of recovering passwords. I see that you're a seasoned TechRepublic member and hope that will prevail. As mentioned earlier, I admit that I posted my question poorly and I apologize and wish to move pass that. Please read my prior post, I owned up to posting a poorly worded question and clarified that I was seeking opinions on using the tools I already have (and you too, Bubba - I hope) on a MS Virtual PC versus an actual PC. By the way, thank you for asking, yes I am really an IT professional and own my own IT Consultancy with operational cells in Chicago, Washington State, and Oregon. By the way, I thought of making mention that I did resolve the issue with the lost/forgotten password, first of all I remembered the forgotten password, interested in how the tools would perform on a Virtual PC, I experimented and found that the virtual PC's CD ROM emulator read the ISO file (as is) allowing me to proceed with the process of, if the need was real, either recovering or changing the (assumed)lost password. Oh, if I may ask, have you ever watched the show called, "It Takes a Thief"? Do you oppose the airing of the show on the bases that the processes used to break into homes may be used for purposes other than good? The age of innocence is long gone, we either mature with the times or stew in mediocrity.

by cmiller5400

Okay, I now understand where you were going with that question... I retract my prior remarks. And I agree, most of the information on how to crack etc. is already on the net. You just have to have 1/2 a brain to find it using google; well it may not even take 1/2 brain to find it...

As far as the show "It Takes a Thief", I have not seen it, but as long as the show actually showed the homeowners how to prevent such occurrences after demonstrating them, I would be for it. Knowledge is power.

[i]The age of innocence is long gone, we either mature with the times or stew in mediocrity.[/i] SO true!!

by uplinkspider

I posted a half baked question.

My pleasure in making your acquaintance.

by uplinkspider

True, whether it's virtual or physical, Windows is Windows, the same hold true for any other OS that lends itself to being loaded in a virtual environment, though different virtual machine platforms relate differently to the hosting hardware.

Thanks

by grant.r.johnson.ctr

point in right direction

edit: didn't realize we "don't help people with pw recovery" so this is the direction you would go and the tool you would use if you really truely are haveing a problem, google is your friend

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