tool to reset windows passwords
I have several computers at various places around my house and workshop that are always on and serve different functions. My media system, video editing, fileserver, and so on are left on for months at a time so I don’t spend time waiting for the system to boot up. With so many passwords to remember, it’s easy to set a box up, and forget to store the password in my password manager.
For those times you forget your windows password, it’s good to have a tool that can provide for free local system password recovery. Martin, over at gHacks, has just reviewed a piece of software that can recover Windows passwords locally. It’s good that it requires local access to the computer, so you don’t have to worry about remote exploits for it, and it’s good if you need to choose a user whose password you want to reset.
It’s called Trinity Rescue Kit and looks to be another livecd I’ll be adding to my arsenal. Additionally, from a network admin’s perspective, another useful feature you’ll find on the disk is the ability to clone NTFS filesystems over the network.
