Recover an admin password?

You can use a password cracking program like lophtcrack. Although many people use it for evil, it can still be very helpful at the right time (i.e. guns don't kill people, people kill people).

Good luck,
James

You can install NT on a fat 32 file system in the temp folder and set another password
This will require that you have the disk space to install,then you can delet the previous version.

The utility at the below site is a life saver. You have to make the bootdisk by following the instructions, but it is worth it. This tool should be in every admin / helpdesk persons tool kit.

It boots the system under Linux and gives you access to the registry to change the passwords. It is well documented. Read and follow the instructions. Test it on a spare box first if you are concerned.

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

The commercial option is go to the Winternals web site and check out their recovery software. On a workstation I would go for the linux utility first.

Aaron

If you can still log onto the PC with another account, try adding a login script to change the local Administrator password. I use it to set the default Local Admin password on all our clients at bootup. Here's the script:

@echo off
rem Changelocal passwords on machines
net user Administrator password
@echo on

(password) is the actual password you want for the local admin account.

Hope this helps.