How to recove lost Administrator password in 2003

Hi

Can anybody help in recovering my windows 2003 server Administrator Password.

Thanks

Anoop Prasad

The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account "Administrator" and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget your user account password then try this:

Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press <ctrl>+<alt>+<del> keys twice and it'll show Classic Login box. Now type "Administrator" (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.

Now you can reset your account password from "Control Panel -> User Accounts"

Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.

If you happen to remember an older password that was used, you can restore the server's system state to a point where it had the old password.

Here's an article that talks about a few different methods for recoving administrative passwords: http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm