Disabled Administrative Account

I've got a user who, on his home machine, has disabled
the Administrator account which of course is the only
account on the machine. Now there seems to be no way to
get into the machine.

I've tried using a win2000 CD and going to the recovery
console which allows me a command line interface to the
file system but I'm not sure what to do from there.

I tried creating a new directory under documents and
settings and then copying the ntuser.dat, .dat.log
and .ini hoping that I could then log into the new acct
but to no avail.

I don't suppose there's an easy way to edit whatever
registry file is telling the OS that the acct is
disabled.....

support.microsoft.com says there's no way to recover from
this situation but I have to believe that there actually
is. Any suggestions?


-Brian Sponcil

Network Administrator
Belin-Blank Center
The University of Iowa

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"Brian Sponcil" <brian-sponcil@uiowa.edu> wrote in message
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>
> I've got a user who, on his home machine, has disabled
> the Administrator account which of course is the only
> account on the machine. Now there seems to be no way to
> get into the machine.
>
> I've tried using a win2000 CD and going to the recovery
> console which allows me a command line interface to the
> file system but I'm not sure what to do from there.
>
> I tried creating a new directory under documents and
> settings and then copying the ntuser.dat, .dat.log
> and .ini hoping that I could then log into the new acct
> but to no avail.
>
> I don't suppose there's an easy way to edit whatever
> registry file is telling the OS that the acct is
> disabled.....
>
> support.microsoft.com says there's no way to recover from
> this situation but I have to believe that there actually
> is. Any suggestions?
>
>
> -Brian Sponcil
>
> Network Administrator
> Belin-Blank Center
> The University of Iowa

>-----Original Message-----
>
>I've got a user who, on his home machine, has disabled
>the Administrator account which of course is the only
>account on the machine. Now there seems to be no way to
>get into the machine.
>
>I've tried using a win2000 CD and going to the recovery
>console which allows me a command line interface to the
>file system but I'm not sure what to do from there.
>
>I tried creating a new directory under documents and
>settings and then copying the ntuser.dat, .dat.log
>and .ini hoping that I could then log into the new acct
>but to no avail.
>
>I don't suppose there's an easy way to edit whatever
>registry file is telling the OS that the acct is
>disabled.....
>
>support.microsoft.com says there's no way to recover

from

>this situation but I have to believe that there actually
>is. Any suggestions?
>
>
>-Brian Sponcil
>
>Network Administrator
>Belin-Blank Center
>The University of Iowa
>.
>