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Recently C&D Sign Company sold their business to a local church. Now I have this machine in my shop, and all my efforts to reset the password, including Ophcrack, and many other methods, changing utilman.exe to cmd.exe are to no avail.

C&D Sign Company is the Administrator. Two other accounts are standard users. The hidden Administrator account is not accessible because I don't have the password for C&D.

Net User error "The command completed with one or more errors. It has to be the user name, C&D Sign Company!

Trying this: net user command ... I entered net user C&D Sign Company none ...

Generated Report is as follows: account active - YES Account Expires - NEVER Password last set - 2/13/19 Password expires 3/27/2019
Password changeable 2/13/19
Password required - YES The user may change password - YES
Workstations allowed - ALL Last Login - 2/1/3/19
Login Hours allowed - ALL Local Group Memberships *Users
Global Group memberships *None The command completed successfully. 'D' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. (referring to C&D, I assume.) There is an account on the machine with nothing in it, a standard account, non-admin labeled "C."

Please help me. The Church has all the hardware to make the signs and needs the computer to program the equipment. Thank You.

sparky
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  • User Account Control window pop up shows C&D Sign Company and wants a password, all attempts return with Logon Failure: unknown user name or bad password. – sparky Feb 13 '19 at 23:26
  • You can enable the built-in Administrator without knowing the current Administrator password. All you need is a Vista installation disk. – Ramhound Feb 13 '19 at 23:30
  • Possible duplicate of [How to get rights of admin after I disabled all admin accounts in my computer](https://superuser.com/questions/1024203/how-to-get-rights-of-admin-after-i-disabled-all-admin-accounts-in-my-computer). While the linked duplicate is for Windows 10, the solution to the general problem of not having an accessible Administrator account, is exactly the same for Vista. – Ramhound Feb 13 '19 at 23:32
  • For some reason most password reset utilities do not work on Vista, the only one I have found that works reliably is ERD made by Microsoft, it is part of the DaRT package, you want ERD 6.0, not publicly available but can be found....https://superuser.com/a/247953/40928 – Moab Feb 13 '19 at 23:43
  • Possible duplicate of [What can I do if I forgot my Windows password?](https://superuser.com/questions/72244/what-can-i-do-if-i-forgot-my-windows-password) – Moab Feb 13 '19 at 23:53
  • I have had extremely good luck blanking passwords with [Offline NT Password & Registry Editor](https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/). – Anaksunaman Feb 14 '19 at 01:07

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I found a program called Offline NT Password and Registry Editor. This little GEM did the trick, cleared the password, and got me back on track with the machine.

sparky
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