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I have one of my system techs not reseting the local admin password (as we
did not know what it was) before taking a system off active directory.

There are no users on the systems apart from the local admin.

Can anyone help me get into the system apart from the obvious re installing
the OS?

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Hi,

Try steps provided in these two guides.

http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#password
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

Mike

"CasDeTroy" <CasDeTroy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have one of my system techs not reseting the local admin password (as we
> did not know what it was) before taking a system off active directory.
>
> There are no users on the systems apart from the local admin.
>
> Can anyone help me get into the system apart from the obvious re
installing
> the OS?

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