( Password Clearing: Clearing out any windows password ) { The Offline Windows Password & Bootdisk } Background Information Background The Offline Windows Password & Bootdisk / CD work from Windows NT to Windows 7. For the purposes of this lab, we are pretending that you are locked out of the administrator, instructor and student accounts.   Reference Link:  http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/   Prerequisite Login to a Windows machine that is connected to a USB drive. For my students, it would be your lab or personal machine. For those of you that do not have access to my class, you can download the file to your hard drive, flash drive or burn it to a CD/DVD.   On the Windows machine that is connected to the USB drive, go to http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ Click on the Bootdisk Button. Scroll down and click on cd110511.zip (See Below)   When saving the file. Navigate to your USB, Flash or Hard-drive In my case, I am putting the file in the following location on my USB Drive. D:\Recover Password\ Click Save (See Below)   When Extracting the File Open Up Windows Explorer Navigate to your location where you saved the file. In my case, D:\Recover Password\ Click on Extract to cd110511.   Check to make sure file was extracted In my case, I am verifying file was extracted to D:\Recover Password\cd110511\   Section 1: Set up Instructor VM to boot cd110511   Start up your VMware Player Go to File --> Open a Virtual Machine   Select your Instructor VM.   Edit Virtual Machine Settings (See Below)   Highlight CD/DVD (IDE) Note: We will tell your VM Image to boot from the ISO password utility.   Setting Location to ISO file. Click the Use ISO image file radio button. Browse to where file cd110511.iso is located. In my case, D:\Recover Password\cd110511\cd110511.iso. Click OK, after you select the ISO.     Section 2: How to boot the Instructor VM into the ISO Image Start your Virtual machine Proceed Quickly to the next step.   Booting from the ISO At the same time, Click the right mouse key and the ESC button, when the screen starts to change to the vmware screen below. Note: This might take you a few times so be patient!!!   Selecting from the Boot Menu (See Below) Select CD-ROM Drive by using your down arrow.   Using the Windows Reset Password Utility. Just press enter at the "boot:" prompt.   Selecting the Partition The default partition will be already set to "1". Just press enter.   Do you wish to force it? y Select "y" and press enter.   Setting the path to the registry directory Just Press Enter   Setting the password reset registry. Select 1, and press enter.    Edit User Data and Passwords Select 1 and Press Enter   Select User whose password you wish to blank out. The default is usually "Administrator" Just press Enter.   Clear User Password Select 1 and Press Enter If successful, you will see the message "Password Cleared!"   Selecting another user to clear their password Select "!" and press enter.   Clear the Instructor Account Type "Instructor" and press Enter   To clear the Instructor password Select 1 and press Enter   To Quit making changes Type "!" and Press Enter Type "q" and Press Enter For Proof of Lab press the PrtScn Button and paste into a word document   Saving your changes To save your work, Type "y" and Press Enter To escape out of the run, Type "n" and Press Enter To fire up the Windows Operating System, Type "reboot" and Press Enter   Section 3: Logging in to Instructor VM after clearing passwords On the Instructor VM Select from the menu: Virtual Machine Settings... --> Send Ctrl+Alt+Del   Log in as Instructor or Administrator Leave Password Blank   Reset your Instructor Password Select Start --> Control Panel   Select Administrative Tools   Select Computer Management   Click on Users, Under Local Users and Groups, Click on Users .   Right Click on Administrator, Click on Set Password, Click on the Proceed.   Reset the Instructor password to the class standard password, or if you are not in my class to whatever you like.   Repeat this procedure for any passwords you cleared earlier.   Proof of Lab Do a screen print of Section 2, Step 15.  Paste to a word document Submit to moodle.

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