Recovery Console

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How can I prevent the xp Recover Console from requesting
a password? I know there's a setting in the registry but can't
remember where.

Thanks,
James
 
JamesJ said:
How can I prevent the xp Recover Console from requesting
a password? I know there's a setting in the registry but can't
remember where.
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You can't. However, if you're really bound and determined to have no
security on the computer, you can set the password for the built-in
Administrator account to be blank.


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For XP Pro use Local Security Policy and go to local policies/security
options and set the option for Recovery Console: allow automatic
administrative logon to enabled. However I would strongly suggest not doing
that if it is possible for a malicious user to have physical access to your
computer but then again a malicious user can use other methods to gain
access but no sense making it too easy.

Steve
 
Last time I installed XP Home I was able to modify or add a key that would
runs the Recovery Console without prompting for a password. I can't remember
where I found this info.

James
 
I finally found it!
Microsoft Article#: 31249
Explains how to enable an administrator to log on automatically in
Recover Console.

Thanks,
James
 
On Sun said:
I finally found it!
Microsoft Article#: 31249
Explains how to enable an administrator to log on automatically in
Recover Console.
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Here's the .REG I use for pre-setting Recovery Console so that one can
actually use it to recover things other than Windows (e.g. data on
other hard drive volumes that you may want to see again):

<paste>

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Enable Set commands in Recovery Console (Set /?
; there for help). Without this, RC cannot access
; anything other than C:, or copy anything off C:,
; making it useless for data recovery!

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole]
"SetCommand"=dword:00000001
"SecurityLevel"=dword:00000001

; This is the Undo, to "secure" your data against
; recovery from RC:

; [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole]
; "SetCommand"=dword:00000000
; "SecurityLevel"=dword:00000000

</paste>

Note the long lines that break on the space in "Windows NT".

This enables the Set commands (but cannot re-default them; you still
have to use them each session) as well as make access easier.

Recovery Console is not a maintenance OS, mainly because it is not an
OS (i.e. you can't use it as a platform from which arbitrary programs
written for the OS can be run). See...

http://cquirke.mvps.org/whatmos.htm

....which is rather dated; if I wrote it today, it would be all about
Bart PE boot CDR, which is described rather tentitively in the article
of that time. I use Bart regularly, and it is head and shoulders over
everything else when it comes to maintaining stricken XP boxen.

Recovery Console may be a trick pony with a limited number of tricks
(e.g. FixBoot, FixMBR) but they are good and useful tricks, and even
with Bart, these tricks can be a quicker way to sort out the
particular problems for which the tricks exist.


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