How to delete the sam account

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ghostzone Posts 8 Registration date Tuesday March 10, 2009 Status Member Last seen August 20, 2009 - Mar 11, 2009 at 03:42 PM
ghostzone Posts 8 Registration date Tuesday March 10, 2009 Status Member Last seen August 20, 2009 - Mar 12, 2009 at 05:19 AM
Hello,
I want to know how to delete sam(security account manager) account through the command prompt. Someone told me this is one of the ways you can get access to a system whose user name and password you might have forgotten. Is this right?
Thanks

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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,830
Mar 11, 2009 at 04:10 PM
This should work:

I downloaded EBCD (https://www.prime-expert.com/embootkit/ It's an ISO that basically has a Linux flavor on it but it boots straight into an easy-to-use menu. You just select the windows password reset option, select the defaults for file locations, and then select the user and the password to change. I've used it on Windows 2000 machines, Windows XP machines, Windows 2000 Server machine. Works flawlessly.
One recommendation: If you do use it, just use * as the new password. This will blank out the old password. Then you can boot into windows and safely login with no password and change it to whatever you like. Sometimes these utilities have issues with different flavors of windows re-encrypting a new password so it's best to just blank it out.

You will need to take the ISO file and use CD burner software to burn a CD. You must use the "burn a CD from a Disk Image" (or some option like that) that uses the Image file (ISO file) as input and burns a multi-file bootable CD.

Good Luck
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ghostzone Posts 8 Registration date Tuesday March 10, 2009 Status Member Last seen August 20, 2009
Mar 12, 2009 at 05:19 AM
Thanks for ur reply. I'll definitely try this thing. Thanks once again.
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