How many of you have ever forgotten your Windows 2000/XP/Vista administrator password? Usually you set this password up when you first get your computer. It’s easy to forget especially if your user account isn’t an administrator account. For myself, I come across this frequently when customers drop their computers off to me and have their user accounts password protected. I used to call them and ask for their passwords which sometimes created an awkward situation because I know they didn’t want to tell me because it may be their password to many other things, like their bank account. Now I don’t have to do that anymore. I came across this repair tool called Offline NT Password and Registry Editor. To keep this as less technical as possible, basically you take this tool and put it onto a bootable CD. You then load the CD into the computer in question and boot from it. Finally, you just follow the instructions and just like that it blanks out the password.
This tool as you can see can be very useful. It can also be used for the wrong purposes very easily. I had a customer come in from somewhere in Cape May County the other day that brought me a computer. He said he forgot his password and needed to get into his computer without losing any information. Sounds simple enough right? Well something wasn’t sitting right with me with this customer. I started asking him some information about the computer like the operating system that was installed, the specs of the machine, when and where he purchased it. He stumbled over most of these questions which told me one thing, the computer was most likely stolen. So to make a long story short I ended up denying service on that machine by telling him I wasn’t capable of bypassing the password. He wasn’t happy. Who knows, maybe it was his computer. Guess I’ll never know. Use this tool wisely…
Offline NT Password and Registy Editor
Nicholas Catanoso
Catanoso Computing
http://www.catanosocomputing.com