Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista
I just got done using this one. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ It makes a bootable CD and then you can get into registry and change the password or zero them out for now. And it is free. It worked for me on a Vista machine. Anthony -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of prs Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:46 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista Steve Tomporowski wrote: Short version: My last child in the house, my last son, has a Vista install that my wife 'wisely' decided to place an admin password on and then promptly forgot it. Now the only account that we know the password to, my son's, is locked down and we can't install anything. Is there any way, other than a reinstall, to recover or change the admin password? ThanksSteve Nirsoft makes a password recovery tool..this comes from CPU Mag Computer Power Users...never used it myself, but you can check it out . Its free www.nirsoft.net Password Recovery Tools For Windows pauls
Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Tony Riederer wrote: I just got done using this one. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ It makes a bootable CD and then you can get into registry and change the password or zero them out for now. And it is free. It worked for me on a Vista machine. Thirded. You'll lose access to any EFS encrypted folders though, so if you use that you might want to work on figuring out the password another way. Christopher Fisk -- Officer: We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by? Governor Tarkin: Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] 16 Port GB Switch
STP is only needed if you are hooking many switches/routers together to prevent loops. SNMP is used to obtain metrics/statistics from networking hardware ( or servers ). On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:08:16AM -0500, DSinc wrote: Greg, Thank you. These are 2 protocols I am still grappling with. I have noise with SNMP (?). Do not know about STP yet Still reading.. My 2716's do me fine ATM (un-managed) :) Best, Duncan Greg Sevart wrote: If STP and SNMP are important to you, yes...but I can't imagine a situation in which they would be for typical home use. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] 16 Port GB Switch Greg, So,... .you believe the 2816 is really worth the ~$90 extra freight? Interesting! Really. TNX, Duncan Greg Sevart wrote: Yes, and unlike the 2700 series, the 2800 series supports STP/RSTP and SNMP. That was my biggest complaint for an otherwise solid inexpensive basic switch. We just moved to a big Catalyst 3750 stack at work (needed something stackable and PoE), so unfortunately I'll be stuck with over a dozen 2724's for other duties for some time. -- Bryan G. Seitz
Re: [H] Acronis bootable Rescue CD
(I don't have any 2010 Acronis programs yet.) When you make the original Rescue CD you can have ALL Acronis HD installed compatible programs added to the CD. It makes its OWN bootloader, and OWN menu. One menu item is Windows. I have 4 or 5 other selections. These programs run in Linux, with one exception. You can force MS-DOS for one, but it limits features a lot. You select the menu item you want, and it runs an almost complete version of the Acronis program similar to what is installed on the HD. (Not all features are supported.) You can also add Acronis True Image to your MBR, and have a boot F11 key selection. (No CD required at all.) (Not sure what happens if HP/Compaq are already using that... You can add an Acronis recovery partition and keep your Image file there, but that assumes the HD will not fail. Rick Glazier, Former Acronis beta tester. From: Winterlight When Acronis bootable Rescue CD boots up what happens... you boot into windows ... or do you boot up to a interface which allows you to restore a backup that is saved to your hard drive, USB drive, etc?
Re: [H] 16 Port GB Switch
Bryan, Thanks. OK, I'll ignore STP and leave it with you and the other IT Pros! Still reading about SNMP and how it relates to my NAS. Have not used it (I believe) yet, and don't plan to loose sleep about it anyway. The LAN runs just fine here. Best, Duncan Bryan Seitz wrote: STP is only needed if you are hooking many switches/routers together to prevent loops. SNMP is used to obtain metrics/statistics from networking hardware ( or servers ). On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:08:16AM -0500, DSinc wrote: Greg, Thank you. These are 2 protocols I am still grappling with. I have noise with SNMP (?). Do not know about STP yet Still reading.. My 2716's do me fine ATM (un-managed) :) Best, Duncan Greg Sevart wrote: If STP and SNMP are important to you, yes...but I can't imagine a situation in which they would be for typical home use. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] 16 Port GB Switch Greg, So,... .you believe the 2816 is really worth the ~$90 extra freight? Interesting! Really. TNX, Duncan Greg Sevart wrote: Yes, and unlike the 2700 series, the 2800 series supports STP/RSTP and SNMP. That was my biggest complaint for an otherwise solid inexpensive basic switch. We just moved to a big Catalyst 3750 stack at work (needed something stackable and PoE), so unfortunately I'll be stuck with over a dozen 2724's for other duties for some time.
Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista
Thanx for the link. I've used Winternals on some other bootable CD's, but they worked with XP or 2000, but would not recover Vista passwords... -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: Tony Riederer ariede...@new.rr.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 5:07:24 AM Subject: Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista I just got done using this one. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ It makes a bootable CD and then you can get into registry and change the password or zero them out for now. And it is free. It worked for me on a Vista machine. Anthony
Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista
Thanks for the link, I'll definitely try it out. This system does not have any encrypted folders, so I'm in luck there. Steve On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Tony Riederer ariede...@new.rr.com wrote: I just got done using this one. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ It makes a bootable CD and then you can get into registry and change the password or zero them out for now. And it is free. It worked for me on a Vista machine. Anthony -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of prs Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:46 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Recovering an Admin Password in Vista Steve Tomporowski wrote: Short version: My last child in the house, my last son, has a Vista install that my wife 'wisely' decided to place an admin password on and then promptly forgot it. Now the only account that we know the password to, my son's, is locked down and we can't install anything. Is there any way, other than a reinstall, to recover or change the admin password? ThanksSteve Nirsoft makes a password recovery tool..this comes from CPU Mag Computer Power Users...never used it myself, but you can check it out . Its free www.nirsoft.net Password Recovery Tools For Windows pauls
[H] VMware workstation 7 performance.
Hey everyone, I just updated my VMware workstation 6.x to version 7.0. Part of the reason was Windows 7 support, the other was that it was supposed to support graphics much better in 7.0. Well, before performed a P2V (physical-to-virtual) conversion of my desktop (Vista Ultimate 64), I had scores of 5.9 across the board for everything (I think that is the highest you can go, score wise in Vista). After the conversion (workstation 6.x), I still had 5.9 on all except the graphics. One of the graphics scores was 1.9 (I think that was for the business graphics). The 3d graphics score was a measly 1.0. Even stuff like solitaire and spider solitaire sucked in the VM . After converting to workstation 7.0, using the same VM as above, all of my scores are back at 5.9! Too cool. I have not really done any testing (and probably won't), but the above mentioned games are really smooth now. Bobby
Re: [H] HDD Choices
Thanks all, as I thought pick one, any one in this category. Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: Have tried the wd and seagate. The wd runs a tad bit cooler. On Nov 14, 2009 9:34 PM, maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com wrote: Figuring I've been wasting money on 7200RPM drives for mass storage so looking @ 5900RPM ones as fast enough to serve my media share while running cooler. 3 drives, all same basic specs price, any real reason to pick one over the others? SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD154UI 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EADS 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda LP ST31500541AS 1.5TB
