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by john.keddy

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I have a windows 2000 pro machine that was cloned with out admin rights. The person gave the user admin rights to that machine and that person is no longer with us. Is there a way I can get administrator back without rebuilding that machine?

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John

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by statykserver

This clipping was taken from the above link.
(Use it to get the password of the guy that is no longer there. Then you can give the administrator back the admin rights)
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NT/2000/XP offline password editor:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd
This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system, by modifying the encrypted password in the registry's SAM file.
You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
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by jwalker

You must visit the link provided above, and create a Linux based boot cd. this will allow you to edit the registry hives and reset the administrator password.

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