Retrieving Administrator's Password

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nim wrote:
> How do I retrieve the administrator's password?

You asked this at 7:42AM as well:
nim wrote:
> How do I retrieve the Administrator's password?

You received two answers:

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> With a password cracker/hacker application..
> Best way is to never have forgotten it (if that is the case here) or
> ask the administrator (if that is the case here.)

Jason wrote:
> www.google.com or search this newsgroup. That question gets asked
> multiple times a week.

I'll give you a third:

Try here:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

And if worse comes to worse:

Hack your password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Another Password Hack:
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html

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MS-MVP
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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

My laptop used to be my father's. He didn't remember the administrator's
password.
I got it though.

Thanks for your time,

nim

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> You ask the "administrator" which apparently is not you!
>
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
> Microsoft Newsgroups
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> "nim" wrote:
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> | How do I retrieve the administrator's password?
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