It’s fun to get paid to hack.
We got a new laptop at work that had just arrived from the Provost’s office. They did a good job setting it up, but somehow in the shuffle, we weren’t told what the administrator password was.
After trying the usual suspects, we resorted to Plan B — a bootable, highly-customized Linux CD specializing in Windows password removal. In less than five minutes (three of which were spent finding a USB CD drive to plug in), the admin password was gone. (Security? We don’t need no steenkin’ security…)
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
(Use it with caution; if any encrypted files are on the machine, resetting the password will make them unreadable.)
Enjoy — and remember, kids — be a Jedi, not a Sith.
