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		<title>How to recover Windows 2008/ R2 and Windows 7 Administrator account</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ibrahim Quraishi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper"><![CDATA[I have recently recovered a Administrator Password on Server 2008 R2 last week. so I tested it at home with my Windows 7 Laptop and works like a charm.

Prerequisite

1. Windows media for the OS you are trying to recover the Administrator password.

2. Follow my steps given below :)

Reboot the Server or your system with the right media CD/DVD and select the appropriate language.

<a href="https://quraishi.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/1-boot-from-cd-1.jpg"]]&gt;<img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" title="1 boot from CD 1" src="https://quraishi.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/1-boot-from-cd-1.jpg" alt="" width="604" height="448" /> I  have some steps to explain you how to do it! Click Next and select <em>Repair my Computer</em></p>
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<p>The next screen will will identify all the windows installations and highlight in my case Windows 7 which is installed on C: drive select Next</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Select the<em> Command Prompt </em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Follow the steps given in the Command window bellow:</p>
<ol>
<li>switch to Windows\System32 and copy Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.bak ( this is just to create a backup file of Utilman.exe)</li>
<li>then the most important step Copy cmd.exe  to Utilman.exe as shown below copy cmd.exe Utilman.exe then you will get a prompt say yes by &#8216;y&#8217;</li>
<li> You should see a confirmation that one file copied</li>
<li>Restart the Server or in my case Laptop.</li>
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<figure id="attachment_663" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-663" style="width: 604px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://quraishi.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/5-copy-cmd-over-utilman.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-663" title="Copy cmd.exe over Utilman" src="https://quraishi.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/5-copy-cmd-over-utilman.jpg" alt="" width="604" height="387" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-663" class="wp-caption-text">Copy cmd.exe over Utilman</figcaption></figure>
<p>Once the Server/ Laptop  is rebooted press Windows key + U or click on the icon of Utilman, and you will see the command prompt.</p>
<p>give the following command to change the administrator password</p>
<p><em>net user administrator * (if your administrator account is renamed you can give that user name as I have given Ibrahim.quraishi below)</em></p>
<p>you will asked the enter the password ( the characters will not appear but dont worry as it will not show for security)</p>
<p>yo will be asked to reenter the password again as a confirmation.<br />
Then you should be able to use the new password which you have set for the Administrator to login to the server.</p>
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