Administrator Password - not accessible

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Hi
After reading and trying a number of the answers to the questions about lost
Administrator, unfortunately none work for me.
This computers operating system is XP Pro which had a security "Zenworks" on
it. Therefore the Administrator has been blocked. I cannot use the
password I was told it was. Have tried all sorts of things and the answer I
keep getting is "you must be a member of the Administrators Group on this
computer to open User Accounts. You are logged on as machinename\username,
and this account is not a member of the Administrative Group. There is two
consoles setup. Console and Console1 and therefore have a problem with
Start / Run / mmc and adding my user to the Administrators Group.
Is there any answer to this or will reloading Windows fix the problem.
Thanks
 
enna49 said:
Hi
After reading and trying a number of the answers to the questions about
lost Administrator, unfortunately none work for me.
This computers operating system is XP Pro which had a security "Zenworks"
on
it. Therefore the Administrator has been blocked. I cannot use the
password I was told it was. Have tried all sorts of things and the
answer I keep getting is "you must be a member of the Administrators Group
on this computer to open User Accounts. You are logged on as
machinename\username,
and this account is not a member of the Administrative Group. There is
two
consoles setup. Console and Console1 and therefore have a problem with
Start / Run / mmc and adding my user to the Administrators Group.
Is there any answer to this or will reloading Windows fix the problem.
Thanks
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Since you didn't stay in your original thread, I have no idea what the other
answers were or what you've tried. If this is a computer that you received
as used from an office, you should definitely do a clean install of
Windows.

Contacting "Zenworks" tech support for how to lift restrictions created by
that program may be useful. If the built-in Administrator has been
"blocked", changing its password to a blank with a program such as NTpasswd
might not work. However, it may be worth a try.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Malke
 
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