I'm embarrassed to event admit to this, but I rebuilt my Win 7 machine yesterday and then lost the password. Although in fairness I *know* what the password was, but suspect that I bumped the touchpad while creating it (normally I have the touchpad disabled, but obviously had not done so during install) so who knows what the pc thought I'd typed...
Anyway, I ended up using the 'Offline NT Password & Registry editor from http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ . Looks to be mal/spy/virus free and worked well, just burnt the iso and ran through the options. Since I'm a little paranoid, I've run all kinds of mal/spy/virus scans since and everything still looks kosher, so all in all, a useful little tool to have about.
Friday, December 11, 2009
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