why is it when I boot in safe mode I get the almighty "Administrator" account and none of my passwords work. Nor did I ever set a password up.


Help?

9/7/2005 2:27:14 PM

might be blank, or disabled.

9/7/2005 2:28:56 PM

yeah try to leave the password field blank, if not what os are you running? if xp is it home or pro?

9/7/2005 3:11:50 PM

try "password"

9/7/2005 4:16:26 PM

dear fucking christ

how can you be a senior, in computer science no less, and not know that every windows machine has a hidden administrator account?

[Edited on September 7, 2005 at 4:35 PM. Reason : *]

9/7/2005 4:34:48 PM

maybe it was a sarcastic post?

9/7/2005 4:37:48 PM

my sarcasm detector is flaky with text.

9/7/2005 4:40:38 PM

crack that password with some linux apps!

9/7/2005 4:51:27 PM

^ or run erd

9/7/2005 4:54:00 PM

Quote :

"how can you be a senior, in computer science no less, and not know that every windows machine has a hidden administrator account? "

I know one girl that graduated in electrical engineering last semester... I tried to talk her about some SQL/VB/.asp stuff I was doing at work and I really don't think she had a clue what I was talking about. I know that type of stuff isn't what they concentrate on, but damn, I can't imagine her not having at least been exposed to it while here

9/7/2005 4:56:37 PM

Your password (if less than 15 characters) can be cracked in a day, so long as NTLM2 is not enabled (not by default IIRC). You can do a search for "lost Windows administrator password" and find a bunch of commercial products available, or you can type "cracking Windows password" and educate yourself a bit.

For the education, here's a clue to start you off: LC5.

[Edited on September 7, 2005 at 5:32 PM. Reason : take csc405 this semester if you want to learn this stuff inside out]

9/7/2005 5:31:32 PM

did you really need 2 threads for this?

9/7/2005 5:37:54 PM