I needed to update a password for an account I was not interactively logged in as and I do not have administrative access to force change the password, but I do know the old password. There has to be a way to change the password like the ctrl+alt+del and click way! Here is what I […]
Steve Borba
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Tag: Windows
There are times one needs to reset the local admin password on a windows server hosted in AWS.If this were host in VMware, I would just mount the drive to a linux helper with chntpw, and we could do that with AWS, but if the guest has EC2Config, then we have another option (it will […]
I have seen a few ways to do it; here are potential ways: Use this MS tool (worked, but you have to download the dvd as part of it). This is potential (haven’t tried it). Another (worked, but not consistently), this one is open admin cmd and: diskpart list disk select disk {USB_DISK_NUMBER} clean create […]