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Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers14-Jul-02 8:46 Mark Donkers 14-Jul-02 8:46  Hi CP, This one's a little embarassing I enabled the "Auto-logon" feature on my Win2k box about 4 months ago (after re-installing the OS). I thought it'd be a great idea to do this 'cuz it'll be ready to go after I boot. Now I would like to use PSTools to do some remote administration from work, BUT I forgot the password. Does anyone know of any password recovery tools that I can use. TIA Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Venet14-Jul-02 9:13 Venet 14-Jul-02 9:13  Hi, As far as I know, password is stored in clear text on registry. Have you tried using TweakUI utility ? Can't remember the exact location of the key that holds password. It is something along HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Logon Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers14-Jul-02 9:29 Mark Donkers 14-Jul-02 9:29  Thanks Venet. TweakUI does show the asterisks and lets me know how many characters it is. I downloaded a utilty that will reveal what the asterisks are in a text box, but not the TweakUI one. The Copy right-click is disabled as well, so i can't do a cut and paste. Grrrrrrrrr... Any other ideas??? Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Venet14-Jul-02 10:39 Venet 14-Jul-02 10:39  Hi Mark, Well try another thing. I just looked at my computer and found this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon There should be some values there like DefaultUserName and DefaultPassword See if you can get those and let me know Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers14-Jul-02 15:54 Mark Donkers 14-Jul-02 15:54  Thanks again. Unfortunately, it's still a "no-go". I found the DefaultUserName key, but no DefaultPassword. Any more ideas In the mean time, I'll try and find some more utilities. Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Venet14-Jul-02 22:56 Venet 14-Jul-02 22:56  Well if registry fails then you can try creating another username and add it to Administrator group. Then delete the old Administrator. I'm runing of ideas now. [edit] Try this utility. I just tested and worked fine: http://www.codeproject.com/dll/pwdspy.asp [/edit] Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers6-Aug-02 20:21 Mark Donkers 6-Aug-02 20:21  Thanks. Sorry this is such a delayed response. I created a new user with Admin priviledges. I can do everything from that account now, but I can't delete the old one. Oh well, c'est la vie. Thanks again for all the suggestions. Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Gertjan Schuurmans4-Aug-02 3:26 Gertjan Schuurmans 4-Aug-02 3:26  Hi there, You still have access to your computer (when you're sitting) at it, don't you? Then why don't you just reset the password (Control Panel | Users and Password) and use the new one for remote control. BTW, it's probably wise to disable autologon especially because since you do remote admin, you'll probably have your computer always connected. gr, Gertjan Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers6-Aug-02 20:23 Mark Donkers 6-Aug-02 20:23  Hey Gertjan, Yeah. What I did was create another user with Admin privies. I tried to delete the old one, but wouldn't let me. I've disabled Auto-logon so this wouldn't happen again. Anyways, thanks... Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire ICS & outlook express zhero7013-Jul-02 7:09 zhero70 13-Jul-02 7:09  Hello, I have a problem sending Email using outlook express From a client computer which is connected through Microsofot Internet connection sharing. My network is configured as such: Server is running Win2k Pro and is connected to an ADSL modem. Client computer is running WinXP pro. 10Mbps ethernet. I have tried changing MTU size and configuring the cards to work both with Half and full duplex modes. Connecting the clinet directly to the ADSL modem results in no problems sending email. I would be gratefull if anyone that knows anything about this problem would reply. Thanx. ZhErHo@@7o Re: ICS & outlook express Venet14-Jul-02 4:07 Venet 14-Jul-02 4:07  Could you post the error message? What IPs are you using for your internal network? Is your SMTP server located outside network? etc. etc. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: ICS & outlook express zhero7017-Jul-02 12:27 zhero70 17-Jul-02 12:27  I finally succeed to resolve the problem by using Doctor TCP (a small optimisation tools ).It s weird beacause I have definetly play with the MTU size..Anyway thanks for your interest.. Best Regards ZhErHo@@7o Re: ICS & outlook express Venet17-Jul-02 23:50 Venet 17-Jul-02 23:50  zhero70 wrote: It s weird beacause I have definetly play with the MTU size So what, MTU size was the problem of OE not connecting ? Weird. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: ICS & outlook express Daniel Turini22-Jul-02 6:29 Daniel Turini 22-Jul-02 6:29  "Problems that go away by themselves come back with friends" Anonymous Concussus surgo. When struck I rise. Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. WREY10-Jul-02 7:41 WREY 10-Jul-02 7:41  Does anyone know how to start Win2K from a remote machine without physically turning the machine on? (Yes, the machine is plugged in, and electricity is flowing to it at all times.) It might sound crazy, but if you can shut your machine down without physically turning it OFF, why wouldn't you be able to do the opposite and start it up, without physically turning it ON? I'm talking something almost similar to hibernating, in which the machine turns itself on at a certain time you had instructed it to do so. This, however, is for it to turn itself on upon receiving instruction to do so from a remote terminal. Might there be something in the BIOS you can activate to do this? William Re: Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. Venet11-Jul-02 4:17 Venet 11-Jul-02 4:17  WREY wrote: It might sound crazy, but if you can shut your machine down without physically turning it OFF, why wouldn't you be able to do the opposite and start it up, without physically turning it ON? Good point WREY wrote: Might there be something in the BIOS you can activate to do this? Nope, it has to do with the network card. There are types of Network Cards that can remotely turn on PC (of course this needs to be supported by the BIOS as well). Technology is called WakeupOnLan. It is based by sending a special packet (MAGIC PACKET) to your NIC and it will turn on the computer. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. WREY11-Jul-02 6:50 WREY 11-Jul-02 6:50  Thanks! I appreciate it. William Microsoft exe and MZ John Wheater8-Jul-02 1:50 John Wheater 8-Jul-02 1:50  I notice that (in Win200 at least) the check on the 1st 2 bytes of an exe being 'MZ' does not take place. Anything known? Re: Microsoft exe and MZ Venet8-Jul-02 22:50 Venet 8-Jul-02 22:50  It does on my win2k machine. I just changed MZ header and file turned into MS-DOS executable. .EXE files on windows are PE files and therefore should adhere to the standard specified. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Microsoft exe and MZ John Wheater9-Jul-02 0:55 John Wheater 9-Jul-02 0:55  Venet, thanks, but what I meant was that if you change the MZ (which appears in all exes) to, say, XX, then it still runs. There was a time when the OS complained if this signature was not present. Re: Microsoft exe and MZ Venet9-Jul-02 4:07 Venet 9-Jul-02 4:07  Sorry for misunderstanding. John Wheater wrote: There was a time when the OS complained if this signature was not present. What OS was this ? Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Microsoft exe and MZ John Wheater9-Jul-02 23:25 John Wheater 9-Jul-02 23:25  Not really an OS, rather DOS Changing Boot Disc James Spibey5-Jul-02 22:53 James Spibey 5-Jul-02 22:53  I've a Windows 2000 Server which currently has two phyiscal hard disks. The partitons look a little like this:- Disk 1 (60GB) ======= c:\ 2GB (used to be Win98) Boot Partition d:\ 30GB (mirrored onto disk 2) e:\ 10GB (Windows 2000 Server System Partition) f:\ 18GB (stuff) Disk 2 (30GB) ======== 30GB mirror of d:\ What I want to do is copy d:\ to a new 60GB disk, use Disk 2 as the system boot partition, and then mirror my new 60GB disk onto the current disk 1. Is is imperitive that the Windows 2000 installation is not corrupted in any way as it runs my entire network. Can anyone give any pointers about the best way to do this? I can get access to Partition Magic if needs be. Re: Changing Boot Disc Venet6-Jul-02 0:17 Venet 6-Jul-02 0:17  Using Ghost maybe ? Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) BIOS? Peter Molnar4-Jul-02 11:33 Peter Molnar 4-Jul-02 11:33  Hi, I wanna install a new version of Windows (W2k) but I encountered a problem. During installation after copying files from the CD-ROM to the hard disk the computer needs a restart. This is normal. What is not normal is that after the restart the installation begins from the very beginning with copying files to the hard disk again. I suspect (but I may be wrong) that the BIOS settings are wrong. I tried CD-ROM and hard disk as first and second boot devices but the same problem persists. Could somebody give me please a pointer? Thanks Bunburry

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