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I have a notebook running W2K Pro that was previously
joined to a domain. I just joined it to a workgroup
instead, and apparently that cancels the computer account
so now I can no longer log in with the user name and
password I've been using I'm totally locked out of the
computer now, and it appears that it is expecting a new
password for the user name that now auto-fills the log on
box (it's the same as my old user name except the first
two letters are capitalized, so I assume it's pulling from
a different profile). What are my options at this point? I
don't have the administrator password and can't get it. I
don't want to re-install the OS or somehow get back to the
configuration it was using when it was joined to the
domain? Can the password it's now looking for be cracked?
Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thanks!
 
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From: "JuniorNet" <[email protected]>
Subject: windows 2000
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:18:40 -0700
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.registry

I have a notebook running W2K Pro that was previously
joined to a domain. I just joined it to a workgroup
instead, and apparently that cancels the computer account
so now I can no longer log in with the user name and
password I've been using I'm totally locked out of the
computer now, and it appears that it is expecting a new
password for the user name that now auto-fills the log on
box (it's the same as my old user name except the first
two letters are capitalized, so I assume it's pulling from
a different profile). What are my options at this point? I
don't have the administrator password and can't get it. I
don't want to re-install the OS or somehow get back to the
configuration it was using when it was joined to the
domain? Can the password it's now looking for be cracked?
Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thanks!
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Unfortunately I don't know of way around this. Some one else in the group might be able to point you to a utility that would
allow you to recover the Administrators password.

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Well, I've found a tool (I'm sure it's a legal tool) to crack th
password. It is called LC4 and is free to try (I thought it was for 3
days)
You can crack the password if you have enough time to wait because i
can take more then 7 days to get the password. But... It is a reall
nice tool! I use it to test if my password is easy to crack.
Download it at www.tucows.co


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