Roberto bird
December 14th 03, 08:11 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>
>I've got a user who, on his home machine, has disabled
>the Administrator account which of course is the only
>account on the machine. Now there seems to be no way to
>get into the machine.
>
>I've tried using a win2000 CD and going to the recovery
>console which allows me a command line interface to the
>file system but I'm not sure what to do from there.
>
>I tried creating a new directory under documents and
>settings and then copying the ntuser.dat, .dat.log
>and .ini hoping that I could then log into the new acct
>but to no avail.
>
>I don't suppose there's an easy way to edit whatever
>registry file is telling the OS that the acct is
>disabled.....
>
>support.microsoft.com says there's no way to recover
from
>this situation but I have to believe that there actually
>is. Any suggestions?
>
>
>-Brian Sponcil
>
>Network Administrator
>Belin-Blank Center
>The University of Iowa
>.
>
>
>I've got a user who, on his home machine, has disabled
>the Administrator account which of course is the only
>account on the machine. Now there seems to be no way to
>get into the machine.
>
>I've tried using a win2000 CD and going to the recovery
>console which allows me a command line interface to the
>file system but I'm not sure what to do from there.
>
>I tried creating a new directory under documents and
>settings and then copying the ntuser.dat, .dat.log
>and .ini hoping that I could then log into the new acct
>but to no avail.
>
>I don't suppose there's an easy way to edit whatever
>registry file is telling the OS that the acct is
>disabled.....
>
>support.microsoft.com says there's no way to recover
from
>this situation but I have to believe that there actually
>is. Any suggestions?
>
>
>-Brian Sponcil
>
>Network Administrator
>Belin-Blank Center
>The University of Iowa
>.
>