• This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system.
• You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
• It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD. The bootdisk includes stuff to access NTFS and FAT/FAT32 partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together.
• Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
• It is also an almost fully functional registry editor!

NT stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \winnt\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible. But thanks to a German(?) named B.D, I've now made a program that understands the registry. As far as I know, Microsoft provides no way of changing the password if you cannot log in as someone with appropriate privileges, except restoring the registry files from the rescuefloppy.

• You don't forget passwords?
• You never get boxes to admin when someone quits suddenly?
• Your vendor delivers a preconfigured system to you, but never have "freak" accidents and lose the password they've set on it?
• If so, what are you doing reading this?? Go read propaganda from your favourite software vendor instead.

2006-04-06, release 060213

• Driver updates only, see download page for more info.

2005-03-03, release 050303

• Driver update only, with a few fixes to the autoprobe, too.
• Some popular drivers like aacraid, megaraid and some SATA-drivers were problematic or missing, now hopefully here.
• Note that most SATA-drivers also need the libata.ko.gz file, autprobe loads it if needed.
• The driver archive are too big to include all drivers on a floppy so remove some you're sure you don't need. Remember to always keep pcitable.gz and moddep.gz if you want autoprobe to work.
• The CD of course includes all drivers.
• The manual try-all-drivers load is buggy, and won't try to load all drivers, it will stop after each that has not been tried before. But specifying a single driver directly still works.
• No changes to password edit routines