BiggAndyy the Magazine

This CD has saved my hide more than a few times. In every case it has been our department has absorbed the function and machines of a smaller office or program here at the University. We not only get machines for current employees but their inventory of salvaged machines they keep for parts, storage, or for eventual recycling back into the active rotation.

By the time I get the machines all the network administrators and server operators have long been let go or reassigned. I have been reassigned in the past, it isn’t the greatest experience. But a worse experience is realizing that the administrator password for all these systems is wrong. And no one is around who knows or is willing to admit they know it.

I don’t even ask anymore. If I come across a machine I don’t have administrator rights on I reboot with Petter Nordahl-Hagen ’s Offline NT Password and Registry Editor. Burn to a CD and anytime I have a machine I can’t get into pop it in, reboot, and presto! I can reset the administrator password to anything I want… even null (the best setting BTW).

But don’t listen to me. Visit the site, download a copy and use it the next time you have a problem. One caveat, it isn’t perfect. It did ruin the registry of one machine I used it on. But I found out that machine had hard drive issues to begin with so I don’t really think it was the program’s fault completely.

My Christmas Gift to all you new Windows Administrators out there. Merry Christmas.

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